[RndTbl] optimizing hard drive, RH 7.2

[Kevin McGregor]

It really depends on what sort of programs you're running and what their 
memory footprint and use pattern is. Have you run 'top' to see which 
programs are using the most memory? If not, run 'top' at a shell prompt 
and press capital 'M' to sort the list by memory use. Some programs have 
memory leaks, too, and that will exacerbate the problem. Someone else 
may have suggestions for other tests to do to narrow down the source of 
this behaviour.

millward wrote:

> Sometimes my hard drive grinds away like
> a coffee grinder. Nothing bad happens on
> the screen and everything runs just fine,
> but I wonder why it occasionally goes
> 'crazy' like that. Most of the time the hard drive
> runs nice and quiet. Its a 40 gig Samsung
> SV4084H.
> I know what swapping is and I can't think why
> it would be swaping. I've got 384 megs of
> memory and gave Red Hat 7.2 128 megs of swap.
> Perhaps its something I have not done.
> Is there some method to optimize memory
> or hard drive space? 
> 
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