A couple of more things.

on the command line, type:

free

to see how much memory your Linux box uses.

Better yet, you can use a GUI application called:

xosview

Hope thses helped.



> "Seak, Teng-Fong" wrote:
> >        A question of curiosity: how to know in what memory (physical or
> > virtual) a programme's code and its data/stack resides?
> >
> >      Why do I ask such a question?  Sometimes when I quit a programme,
> > the hard disk is very "active" for quite a while.  It's just like
> > something is read/written to it while the programme is quitting.  But if
> > the programme resides totally in physical memory, there shouldn't be
> > such activity.  The PC has got 64 MB.  Don't tell me Linux kernel and X
> > use up all physical memory!
> >
> >      Fong

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