Hello,
For the first time, yesterday I received a low RAM warning telling me to reboot. I was catching up on missed shows and had been streaming video for a couple of hours, so I didn't think much of it.
However, I got the same message today, three times so far, but I already rebooted a couple of times because I installed some packages:
Firefox
Flashplayer
mplayer // btw, when I launch mplayer , it locks Puppy and I have to
player_codecs // kill the power and reboot
mplayer plug
Now that I think about it, shouldn't there be a clean fix for this; Windows has more RAM flushers than you can shake a stick at. Also I rebooted twice already after installing packages.
RAM status: 483MB (149MB used)
I installed Puppy 4.1 on a 4Gig Flash Drive, partitioned for 3Gig Puppy and 1Gig Windows. The tray applet says I have 2.2G Free, down from 2.5G after the initial OS install.
Other than the packages I haven't saved any files to the drive. I'm also using gmail. The only other thing I've saved to the drive are bookmarks.
Thanks for the assist in advance.
How do I resolve "Low RAM -- recommend you reboot" warnings?
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Bruce B
Hello, thanks for the replies.
This morning I rebooted and went to get a cup of coffee, I came back
and the red low RAM warning was on the screen.
>Windows has RAM flushers?
Yes, if I'm understanding you correctly, apps like freeram xp pro, but I don't believe they work better than the OS.
Just so I'm clear...the problem seems to be that some of the flash players aren't releasing seized ram when I google to the next episode, and puppy isn't checking?
>How are you measuring Linux RAM?
That first quote was from Hardinfo -> Summary.
Top says: Mem 362408K used, 120788K free, OK shrd, 14540K buff, 219000K cached
>How much physical RAM do you have? 483?
Yes
>Do you have a paging device? If so;
>How big is your paging device?
tmpfs?
Hardinfo -> Filesystems
Size 235.9 Mib
Used 3.0 Mib
Available 232.9 Mib
>Is the pup_xxx.sfs also being copied to RAM?
During boot up I see pup_xxx.sfs..."Forced copying to RAM"
>try df -h in a console.
rootfs 236M 3.0M 234M 2% /
/dev/sda1 2.9G 560M 2.2G 20% /initrd/pup_ro1
tmpfs 236M 3.0M 234M 2% /initrd/pup_rw
tmpfs 93M 92M 1000K 99% /initrd/mnt/tmpfs
/dev/loop0 92M 92M 0 100% /initrd/pup_ro2
unionfs 236M 3.0M 234M 2% /
This morning I rebooted and went to get a cup of coffee, I came back
and the red low RAM warning was on the screen.
>Windows has RAM flushers?
Yes, if I'm understanding you correctly, apps like freeram xp pro, but I don't believe they work better than the OS.
Just so I'm clear...the problem seems to be that some of the flash players aren't releasing seized ram when I google to the next episode, and puppy isn't checking?
>How are you measuring Linux RAM?
That first quote was from Hardinfo -> Summary.
Top says: Mem 362408K used, 120788K free, OK shrd, 14540K buff, 219000K cached
>How much physical RAM do you have? 483?
Yes
>Do you have a paging device? If so;
>How big is your paging device?
tmpfs?
Hardinfo -> Filesystems
Size 235.9 Mib
Used 3.0 Mib
Available 232.9 Mib
>Is the pup_xxx.sfs also being copied to RAM?
During boot up I see pup_xxx.sfs..."Forced copying to RAM"
>try df -h in a console.
rootfs 236M 3.0M 234M 2% /
/dev/sda1 2.9G 560M 2.2G 20% /initrd/pup_ro1
tmpfs 236M 3.0M 234M 2% /initrd/pup_rw
tmpfs 93M 92M 1000K 99% /initrd/mnt/tmpfs
/dev/loop0 92M 92M 0 100% /initrd/pup_ro2
unionfs 236M 3.0M 234M 2% /