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- From: sjg
- Subject: Memory problems
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 19:41:48 +0000
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- Is anyone else having the same problems with memory that I get running the
- init suite of programs?
-
- When I run tcsh as the 'init' program from mint.cnf, I have something like
- 3.6Mb left over to play with. Not bad from the 4Mb it started from. The
- problems come when I try the multi-user approach. When I log in having started:
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- o init (and therefore update)
- o virtual consoles (4 of them - 4 getty's)
- o syslog
- o cron
- o lpd
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- and 1 tcsh on (say) vt01, I have 1.6Mb free(!!!). The memory usages of the
- programs (as given by ps) come to around 1.2Mb. That ought to give me over
- 2.5Mb to play with.
-
- Another thing is that when I run a tcsh on another terminal, and type 'mem'
- the memory available has gone down (surprise :-), but when I press CTRL-D to
- logout, and look at the memory available from the first terminal, it stays at
- or about the level it was when 2 were running. Eventually I run out of memory.
-
- Presumably the memory used has not been reclaimed somewhere along the line, or
- the free-memory management isn't working properly. Any fixes/ideas welocme :-)
-
- Simon.
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