ubuntu jaunty seized up

[Karl F. Larsen]

prad wrote:
> On Mon, 04 May 2009 12:14:18 +0300
> Ioannis Vranos <ivranos at freemail.gr> wrote:
>
>   
>> How much swap do you have?
>>
>>     
> 2G and it is kept busy i'm sure.
> top shows the memory being used at 494M even before i start any
> applications.
>
> as i write this i have claws-mail, firefox, 1 gnome-terminal and update
> manager just finished:
> ram use 419M, swap 176M on top
> ram use 260M, swap 178M on system monitor
>
> i don't understand why top and system monitor are showing such
> different values for ram use.
>
>   
    I see the same thing, top uses a lot of RAM for some reason and I 
never leave it running long :-)

Karl