The features in ASL 5.100 are great but it is a memory HOG especially on systems with more than 1GB RAM. I am still trying to figure out which module is draining the RAM. My 2GB RAM is exhausted and 4GB Swap file is more than 98% full. I am only using HTTP Proxy and WebAV. The WebAdmin responds after a long time and sometimes shows Internal Server Error: unable to complete your request...[no address given] ... Any HELP will be greatly appriciated...
Log in as root and then type top. See what the cached memory is. I bet it is a ton. Try this commmand as root: swapoff -a
With 2 gigs of ram you should not have any adverse system effect from running this way. Rh9 and above(not including fedora) has a vm bug which the kernel swaps instead of releasing the file cache. I have seen this bug to an extent in ASL 5 as well. Also more research has shown the Rh fixes the problem only to bring it back. While i am talking about RH this bug appears to apply to ASL 5.1. Here's more information:
Log in as root and then type top. See what the cached memory is. I bet it is a ton. Try this commmand as root: swapoff -a
With 2 gigs of ram you should not have any adverse system effect from running this way. Rh9 and above(not including fedora) has a vm bug which the kernel swaps instead of releasing the file cache. I have seen this bug to an extent in ASL 5 as well. Also more research has shown the Rh fixes the problem only to bring it back. While i am talking about RH this bug appears to apply to ASL 5.1. Here's more information:
Redhat has released a new kernel that so far has greatly rediced this issue. I am testing it on my two wrvers here to make sure the problem is truly resolved.
