Letters lag behind my keyboard strokes. Intrepid 32bit KDE 4.2

[Steven Vollom]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 02:58:01 Brendan wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009, Steven Vollom wrote:
> > > Problem-solving for me would be to stop all the programs using
> > > resources and see if the problem goes away...
> >
> > It does, however it never happened before, so I thought maybe it was a
> > glitch that could be fixed.  I notice that sometimes only 12 to 15mbs
> > remain of the 512mb I now have.
>
> That's a whoooooolllle other discussion about how memory gets used in
> Linux. The short of it is: memory gets used as a place to make things
> launch faster, called "caching", in Linux, so that free memory doesn't just
> hanging around doing nothing.
thanks Brandon.

steven