On Sun September 5 2004 09:21, you wrote: > On Sun September 5 2004 04:11, Graham Monk wrote: <snip> > > > > Does this explain it? > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=175419 > > > > Graham
What prompted me to post this issue was my seeming lack of RAM (under KDE especially). �If I had too many Konqueror tabs open my system would start uninterrupted disk thrashing and I would have to kill the X server to get my system back (after waiting for 30 minutes or more at a time). �Intensive games (like Enemy Territory) were out of the question. �They worked under Blackbox, but sometimes even then... Subsequently, I was going to post an OT thread regarding America's Army under Linux. �It was frustrating me that I have it working under Windows but not under Linux. �All my other native 3D games work perfectly (BZFlag, Enemy Territory, etc.). �I wondered if my problem might be related to the fact that I have an older machine. Finally, I found a thread on the AA Linux support forums that applied: http://forum.americasarmy.com/viewtopic.php?t=10677&highlight=crash "i know what was wrong - i ran out of memory (i had 256MB SDRAM and 190MB swap) now i added 500MB swap and sf works (i passed the test)" So I checked my /etc/fstab and lo and behold! �I had not added my swap partitions back to fstab since reinstalling 2 months ago! �:-P �'swapon -s' revealed nothing, empty set, nada. �No wonder I was seeing such poor performance. I've since added the appropriate entries back and America's Army (as well as everything else) is behaving appropriately now. This is one for my sysadmin checklist for next time. �;-P �Apparently, I'm not the only one: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/28/2043256&tid=106 "...i had forgotten to officially make the swap partition using mkswap. i'd been running this partition schem for about 2 months, and never realized it until about 2 days ago. all that to say, yes. the system DOES reclaim memory. by killing other stuff :) i'm a stoopid monkey sometimes :-D" HTH someone else, Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
