virtual memory management

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Dear Kris and all,

>> I see lots of them; every one in that list is contributinig.  If you
>> add up all those process sizes you'll see where the space is going.
>
> By which I mean the difference between size and res, which indicates
> the amount of process memory allocated but not currently resident in
> RAM.  This isn't a foolproof method (see e.g. the FAQ entry on
> rpc.statd), but it's true in your case.
>
>> Basically you are just overloading your system by trying to run too
>> much at once.  Reduce the load or add more RAM.

The problem is I cannot add more RAM (too old machine to do that) but I
know what to do to decrease the load a bit. So thanks for the pointer! I
appreciate it!

Warm regards,

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Zbigniew Szalbot