Xorg is using 88% of my memory

[Steven Vollom]

On Friday 20 February 2009 22:18:12 Derek Broughton wrote:
> Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Steven Vollom
> >
> > <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>> Just a suspicion.  It did the same to me a while back, which is why I'm
> >>> suggesting it.  If you're not using it, then never mind. :D
> >>
> >>  I have three plasmoids on my desktop, a digital clock, something to
> >> post reminders and a Disk Space plasmoid.  The only open package is
> >> Kmail, and when I depress the mouse, I have to wait for every action.
> >
> > Is there any possibility, that your dying hard drive is making your box
> > slow?
>
> Uh-huh.  I just doubled my memory because the drive was thrashing and I
> thought I had a memory issue.  I _really_ should have checked the disk
> stats.  Yes, it was having trouble swapping, but only because it was having
> trouble reading the swap partition. :-(  After inserting the new memory,
> the HD promptly gave up!
Can I make a direct firewire link between the my new and old computer and 
transfer data while the drive is still working, though poorly.  I have 
wondered about this before.  Both have firewife cable and I have a cable with 
both ends the same; that is the way firewire cable is, isn't it.  If so, when 
the cables are connected how do I identify the connection and instruct the 
transfer?

Steven