[PlanetCCRMA] jackstart hanging the system

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:22, Joseph Zitt wrote:
>  
> > About the "cannot allocate memory" I'd swear I saw something on the
> > lists about this before but I have been unable to find it. 
> 
> As Mark had wondered, is there a minimum amount of memory? My laptop has
> rather little (64 MB, I think). Hmm, is there a command that I could run
> that would neatly summarize what CPU I have, how much memory, etc? It
> would be handy for these situations.

Sure, run 'top' in a terminal and look at memory in the top left part of
the terminal. Look at both Mem: and Swap:. Pay attention to Free Memory.
Ctrl-C to break out of it.