All the programs mentioned by you are relatively memory-intensive. How much memory do you have installed and what OS/desktop is your computer running?
To confirm a possible memory shortage do the following: open a shell window and issue
Let it run for some lines of output until the output is relatively stable. Now start the two programs in question and watch the change in the display. You should be able to see the free memory amount dropping and at the same time the swap activity going up. This would confirm a memory shortage.
The only way to cure such a problem is putting more memory in.
I am running Solaris 8 intel and recently my Common Desktop environment will not load. I enter the root username and password at the prompt, it switches to the CDE screen and the freezes. The OpenWindows environment works fine. I tried with a regular username (not root) and I get the same resutls.... (2 Replies)
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I use SCO Unix 5.0.5 as my operating system and i have been having the following problem for the past couple of days :
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I`ve configured server, created profile for a client, issued
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I've configured X Server using Video Configuration Manager on SCO 5.0.6, but the keyboard and mouse are freezing after 5 minutes on the graphical login mask.
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I am having a problem where my mouse (USB) is freezing after some idle time, and I am having to reboot everytime that happens.
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I have had trouble getting several versions of Linux stable on my machine over the last few months.
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memstat
MEMSTAT(1) Linux Programmer's Manual MEMSTAT(1)NAME
memstat - Identify what's using up virtual memory.
SYNOPSIS
memstat [-w][-p PID]
DESCRIPTION
memstat lists all accessible processes, executables, and shared libraries that are using up virtual memory. To get a complete list memstat
has to be run as root to be able to access the data of all running processes.
First, the processes are listed. An amount of memory is shown along with a process ID and the name of the executable which the process is
running. The amount of memory shown does not include shared memory: it only includes memory which is private to that process. So, if a
process is using a shared library like libc, the memory used to hold that library is not included. The memory used to hold the exe-
cutable's text-segment is also not included, since that too is shareable.
After the processes, the shared objects are listed. The amount of memory is shown along with the filename of the shared object, followed
by a list of the processes using the shared object. The memory is listed as the total amount of memory allocated to this object throughout
the whole namespace. In brackets also the amount that is really shared is listed.
Finally, a grand total is shown. Note that this program shows the amount of virtual (not real) memory used by the various items.
memstat gets its input from the /proc filesystem. This must be compiled into your kernel and mounted for memstat to work. The pathnames
shown next to the shared objects are determined by scanning the disk. memstat uses a configuration file, /etc/memstat.conf, to determine
which directories to scan. This file should include all the major bin and lib directories in your system, as well as the /dev directory.
If you run an executable which is not in one of these directories, it will be listed by memstat as ``[0dev]:<inode>''.
Options
The -w switch causes a wide printout: lines are not truncated at 80 columns.
The -p switch causes memstat to only print data gathered from looking at the process with the gicen PID.
NOTES
These reports are intended to help identify programs that are using an excessive amount of memory, and to reduce overall memory waste.
FILES
/etc/memstat.conf
/proc/*/maps
SEE ALSO ps(1), top(1), free(1), vmstat(8), lsof(8), /usr/share/doc/memstat/memstat-tutorial.txt.gz
BUGS
memstat ignores all devices that just map main memory, though this may cause memstat to ignore some memory usage.
Memory used by the kernel itself is not listed.
AUTHOR
Originally written by Joshua Yelon <jyelon@uiuc.edu> and patched by Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@debian.org>. Taken over and rewritten by Michael
Meskes <meskes@debian.org>.
Debian 01 November 1998 MEMSTAT(1)