[PlanetCCRMA] jackstart hanging the system

[Mark Knecht]

OK, but in my system jack seems to use about 220MB, or 4 times the
amount of memory you even have.

If you have it installed, run gtop and look at the second page. It gives
a graphical representation of what's going on.

You may just not have enough memory to run on this machine.

http://www.crucial.com

In a desktop machine $50 will solve this problem. In a laptop it's
anybodies guess!

Mark

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:59, Joseph Zitt wrote:
> On 30 Dec 2002 22:29:59 -0800
> Mark Knecht <markknecht at attbi.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, OK! Looking at it now (with jack not running), I see 
> 
> Mem: 62376K a, 47652K used, 14708 free, 0K shrd, 4076 buff
> Swap: 161230K av, 42128K used, 119112K free, 11920K cached
> 
> These number probably don't add up exactly: not surprisingly, they keep
> fluctuating a bit, and, since for some reason I can't select-and-paste
> from that with the mouse, I'm glancing up at them and typing them in by
> hand.
> 
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