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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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