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Re: Extreme Memory Shortage on RedHat 4.0



On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Harvey J. Stein wrote:

> > Now, I tried to run X windows but couldn't get it to run on a virtual =
> > screen size higher than 320x200. When I executed "free" I noticed that =
> > at least 14 MB of my RAM was already taken by the processes which were =
> > already running. As for the swap partition memory, hardly any of it was =
> > used.
> 
> The odds are that your inability to run X windows under higher
> resolutions has to do with your X configuration rather than your
> memory usage.

also, if you are running a standalone station, I'd go and kill named,
httpd, nwserv, smbd, nmbd, nfsd, mountd, ypserv, innd and amd you might
have told it to install by mistake and are all unneeded.



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