~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fethi Okyar Research Assistant Computational Solid Mechanics MMAE Department, IIT Chicago, IL 60616-3793
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:14:10 -0600 (CST) From: Fethi A. Okyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: kernel eats alot of memory On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > > > Q: > > Don't you think this is a lot of memory being used when I'm not > > running X11 ? > > So I'm afraid to compile a kernel right now, and thinking of > > rebooting the system... > > You don't need to rebuild your kernel; there's nothing wrong with it. The > memory that shows up as "in use" is being used by the kernel to cache > things such as disk accesses. It is available for any program that needs > it, though. The kernel will simply re-adjust its caches so it can > allocate memory to other programs that need it. > > > The other thing is my clock got screwed up, I didn't have that > > problem before, thus here's the next : > > > > Q: > > Could there be any relation between the system being up for > > such and such time, and the clock getting behind the actual time? > > > > I doubt it. Remember, Linux is used extensively in server environments > where it is left on for weeks or months at a time. It would be > unacceptable if the clock didn't keep accurate time on these machines. > How far off is your clock getting? > > If you're on a network, you can run xntp to synchronize you clock with > xntp servers over the network. This will keep your clock accurate to > within a few milliseconds or something. The list of public xntp servers > is installed with the xntp package. > > noah > thanks for your reply, I think that the problem with the clock is somehow related with the BIOS-APM. I remember somewhere I read about not to use the APM features offered by the BIOS, and I hae been using them to my convenience. I think the clock stops when I use the suspend switch and then resume when I start back. So I guess I'll have to rebuild my kernel with APM features compiled in. I hope this will work. fethi > > PGP public key available at > http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html > or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > This message was composed in a 100% Microsoft free environment. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > iQCVAwUBNwN3+IdCcpBjGWoFAQHJuQQAvHqBbXtB+uA+jEyMzkftz6ec4z/cqfaa > GgZhsx4gVZSMCgeBMq1ckm3E65L7AtotEKeKblpdYUh8/0btBn/jAoIdZnlSC5Ic > wlDGgb2MAZMBxHbPtjd9P4oTQN8kYdW3ysqyPU794OMEBU4zv66wTkVXEM1uGZq9 > keOavsDBjZA= > =l6k3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
