[ale] aic7xxx driver in Debian

[Jeff Hubbs]

Even when not doing much, the 2.6 kernel on my new 512MB amd64 laptop
grabs a very large proportion of its RAM after having been booted a
little while, apparently just because it can.  No longer do Linux
kernels really try to allocate as little RAM as possible, as though
someone's going to come by and pull a DIMM out of a slot any second.  

If you fire up top, hit capital-M to make it sort by memory, and you
don't see a bunch of processes taking or adding up to large percentages
of RAM, then you're cool.  

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 14:14, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Top is the best I know for observing memory usage.
> 
> If you remember or have any record of your upgrade activity, I'd try 
> reversing those changes. I know this is obvious but it's all I can think 
> of  :-(
> 
> Best regards,
> Courtney
> 
> 
> Jim Seymour wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 03:59:38AM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > 
> >>I have been running the same card with dual disks using aic7xxx under 
> >>Debian2.4.x for over a year and am having no problems.
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks Courtney,
> > 
> > 	At least I can eliminate that one :-) Right now looking at top 
> > almost all of the 1gb of memory has been used. Is there a better way of 
> > seeing what is using how much memory is being used by what? Right now I 
> > only have xterm and quickshow loaded. These problems with lockups 
> > started after some recent update/upgrades with apt-get.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jim Seymour
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