[SunRescue] Misc. Questions about my Ultra 10

[Eric Ozrelic]

Hello fellow Sun Rescuers!

I have an Ultra 10 with 256MB of memory, I also have a 512MB swap file
configured. I'm running Solaris 7, with almost every patch. I have a few
questions.

1. Using top, I notice that usually when I reach my cruising altitude with
application usage.. i.e I have everything open that I need, and am working,
my physical memory is at about 4MB free, and my swap has around 350MB free.
Is this normal? Do I have a memory leak?

2. I use a SunPCi card and notice that as soon as I start using it, it sucks
up a TON of
my memory, even though I have 256MB of memory onboard the card. What gives?
I'm
running the newest SunPCI software.

3. This is what my top output looks like:

 last pid:   842;  load averages:  0.04,  0.05,  0.11
02:09:23
55 processes:  53 sleeping, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 90.4% idle,  3.4% user,  6.2% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 256M real, 3872K free, 88M swap in use, 353M swap free

   PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
   267 root       1  59    0  164M   57M sleep  112:06  4.25% Xsun
   405 eric       7  48    0   13M 8832K sleep   61:09  1.50% sunpcbinary
   824 eric       1  59    0 3760K 2984K sleep    0:00  0.16% xterm
   355 eric       1  59    0 5400K 3656K sleep    0:54  0.15% wmaker
   499 root       1  58    0 4344K 1768K sleep    1:13  0.09% smbd
   268 root      11  60    0 2304K 1512K sleep    1:22  0.01% mibiisa
   239 root       1  58    0 2336K 1448K sleep    0:05  0.00% nmbd
   341 eric       1  59    0 2328K  776K sleep    0:02  0.00% dsdm
   187 root      11  53    0 2696K 1688K sleep    0:01  0.00% nscd
   223 root       6  58    0 2536K 1200K sleep    0:01  0.00% vold
   842 eric       1  59    0 2536K 1784K cpu      0:00  0.00% top
   303 eric       1  10    0 5056K  696K sleep    0:00  0.00% speckeysd
   404 eric       1  10    0 1080K  184K sleep    0:00  0.00% sunpci
   221 root       1  11    0 1312K  432K sleep    0:00  0.00% afbdaemon
   287 eric       1  30    0 1784K  856K sleep    0:00  0.00% Xsession.ow

Does anything look strange here?

Also, what should my load averages look like?

One more thing... I have an Elite3D M3 card that I'm using. Looking at the
specs between
the Elite3D M3, and the onboard PGX24, the Elite3D should have much higher
2D performance then the onboard graphics....I know I suck but... WHY DON'T
MY WINDOWS move faster when I drag them around the screen? Shouldn't my 2D
performance on my desktop in X be blazing fast? It doesn't seem any faster
then the PGX24. I've applied all the Elite patches I could get ahold of.
Coming from Windows/BeOS, I'd like to move my windows around with out things
stuttering.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Eric Ozrelic