Subject: RE: busy system with Mandrake/KDE
From: Piet van Weel (cryonv@onlinemac.com)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 06:14:26 AKST
Hey Bryan...
Ok... 300 MHz isn't so bad... Hmmm the 32 Megs though is very
limiting...
What do you have your swap space set as? Any chance you could go though
and increase the memory in this machine? (Comp-USA should have some)
When you do the system monitoring is that with KDE running? I imagine
that you're running into the bottom of the barrel, with regards to
memory. If you're running system monitoring tools, they're probably
sucking up the last remaining memory.. and you're getting system
feedback... Of course if you've got a decent swap setup then this
paragraph isn't valid.
Piet
cryonv@onlinemac.com
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Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 2:54 PM
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Subject: busy system with Mandrake/KDE
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?
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