please help! mepis 6.5 slower and slower with more uptime (memory problem?)
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I have installed Mepis 6.5 and it works perfectly, I can open more than one graphical session, even with and without Beryl. So far, best Linux I ever had. But now I have a grievious problem: Mepis only works well for a certain time, the more I do, the slower it gets. After about 20 hours of uptime without doing anything, it becomes really slow up to the point when the kde-gui completely freezes and I need to reboot (only using sysreq-RSEIUB works then). If I use may programs, time until that happens is even slower, if I start two graphical sessions (for two users), one with Beryl and one without, system is doomed to freeze about three hours later!
Does anyone know this problem? If I reboot, all is fine, but again only for several hours. I am just a user, not a progammer, so I am not that much into troubleshooting. But it seems to me that Mepis uses more and more memory over the time but doesn't free it again, so that the computer runs out of memory somehow.
Can anyone help me to fix this? Thanks in advance!
slowing down
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Try running top in konsole before and after a reboot, it may give you some info as to whats running and what memory is available & being used. The command is just the word top, and you dont have to be root to run it. How much memory do you have by the way?
jim