HELP-Suse using 84% of physical memory-62% Disk Cache

[--::Ak1Ra::--]

I am running Suse 10.1 with the KDE interface. My system hardware is a Intel 1.8GHz with 1GB RAM. But for some reason my system is using 84% of my physical memory where 60% is given for disk cache. How do can i control my physical memory allocations?

[gogalthorp]

It may be possible but you really don't need to. The caches will be allocated and dealocated as needed.

[--::Ak1Ra::--]

It may be possible but you really don't need to. The caches will be allocated and dealocated as needed.

The problem i am facing is with open office. Everytime i bring my mouse pointer over an icon in Openoffice Word, all the icons disappear. I feel thats a memory problem. How can I fix that?

[gogalthorp]

The problem i am facing is with open office. Everytime i bring my mouse pointer over an icon in Openoffice Word, all the icons disappear. I feel thats a memory problem. How can I fix that?

Don't know, in Windows 98 it would be a resource memory problem, but that does not apply to Linux you got plent of memory. Are you runnig any of the xgl stuff? I noticed rendering problems in some programs when I tried it and evential turned it all off. Nice eye cand but not really that productive.

[--::Ak1Ra::--]

Don't know, in Windows 98 it would be a resource memory problem, but that does not apply to Linux you got plent of memory. Are you runnig any of the xgl stuff? I noticed rendering problems in some programs when I tried it and evential turned it all off. Nice eye cand but not really that productive.

Where can I turn the XGL stuff off?

[bigtomrodney]

Unix-like systems like Linux use memory a different way. If you are using 80-90% of your RAM then your system is running correctly.

This may sound a little strange coming from the Windows world, but that is because when RAM fills in Windows it can be quite difficult to empty it. In the Unix world RAM should be used fully and data/applications cached in RAM for later usage. That's why applications always open faster the second time

If you are running XGL it is because you will have turned it on in the first place - do you have a 3D desktop and wobbly windows? If so it can be disabled in Gnome Control Center, if not don't worry about it.

What graphics card are you using?

[--::Ak1Ra::--]

Unix-like systems like Linux use memory a different way. If you are using 80-90% of your RAM then your system is running correctly.

This may sound a little strange coming from the Windows world, but that is because when RAM fills in Windows it can be quite difficult to empty it. In the Unix world RAM should be used fully and data/applications cached in RAM for later usage. That's why applications always open faster the second time

If you are running XGL it is because you will have turned it on in the first place - do you have a 3D desktop and wobbly windows? If so it can be disabled in Gnome Control Center, if not don't worry about it.

What graphics card are you using?

I fixed the problem. Strangely the Openoffice GNOME plugin was causing the problem. So when I uninstalled it, the problem just went away.

I am using an ATI graphics card on an IBM Tpad T60.

This RAM information was the best thing i have read in a long time. Thats why the whole LINUX experience has been so good.

Cheers.