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Lots of memory used???
I have a Pentium w/ 32 meg ram, and I have been running out of
memory (into swap anyway) using Executor running Excel. I did
the following experiment by doing the "free" command at different
stages. I think that the memory usage may be somewhat cumulative,
that is, the longer I work, the more I use up, but that part I'm
not sure of. It took over 10 megs of ram to open up three large
spreadsheets. Is this expected behavior? (Caldera/Linux 1.2.13)
Thanks,
Tim Holmes
holmes@gorilla.nbn.com
Immediately after boot.
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 31064 30428 636 8992 23220
-/+ buffers: 7208 23856
Swap: 16624 0 16624
total used free shared buffers
After starting X.
Mem: 31064 30552 512 17728 17488
-/+ buffers: 13064 18000
Swap: 16624 0 16624
total used free shared buffers
After starting Excel with parameters:
-applzone 4m -nobrowser -nosplash -size 1000x730
Mem: 31064 30424 640 23616 11804
-/+ buffers: 18620 12444
Swap: 16624 0 16624
total used free shared buffers
After opening 3 large spreadsheets (440k, 85k, 86k):
Mem: 31064 30476 588 23444 7488
-/+ buffers: 22988 8076
Swap: 16624 168 16456
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