[CLUE-Tech] Question About Memory

[vbsouthern]

Question About Memory.

Equipment and OS: Skip down if this stuff is to boring. Computer built 
in 1998. P2 Motherboard. Front end bus speed 100.  Two 128 MB memory 
chips. Two hard drives: Primary; Western Digital 10G; Secondary Quantum 
7.5G... OS: Mandrake/Linux 9.1. Partitioned Primary Drive for OS with 
517 MB swap space and secondary 7.5G /home.

It seems that I have a lot of wasted memory. The swap space seems to be 
empty most of the time while the physical memory is filled with daily 
usage making the computer slow.

About 100 MB of physical memory is being allocated for DISK CACHE, or in 
other words it's just sitting there unused. Is there a way to free up 
more memory on the system? Am I even asking the right questions?

Just a thought.
vbsouthern at access4less.net