Subject: Re: busy system with Mandrake/KDE
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 15:43:36 AKST
Don't use KDE. Don't use gnome either. kill al the crazy processes drake runs
by default (sendmail, printer stuff...ect.)
Use a less intensive wm, like Blackbox or WindowMaker...
That should help free up some ram....
Adam
On Saturday 01 March 2003 01:54 pm, bryan@ak.net wrote:
> My uncle has a Compaq laptop with a K6-2 running at 300 MHz
> (maybe more). I put Mandrake 8.1 on it for him, setup with
> KDE, and it runs like a dog. It only has 32 megs of RAM,
> which I'm sure is part of the problem, but here's the funny
> part:
>
> The 'free' command shows ~1meg free on the Mem line, like
> normal, but about 12-18 megs free on the "+/- buffers/cache"
> line. And even when several programs are running, and top
> shows a load average as high as 5, it still reports a CPU
> load of around 50%.
>
> The system monitor tools don't seem to be reporting numbers
> that make sense, given the behavior of the system. Can someone
> enlighten me as to what's happening -- and even better, how
> to make the system more responsive?
>
> --
> Bryan Medsker
> bryan@ak.net
>
>
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