I have 64Megs of RAM and 128Megs of swap.
Seve
-----Original Message-----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem
>On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote:
>> I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when
>I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze,
>> the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would
>continue that way for over an hour at times and
then
>> result in jumping back to the Mandrake login menu. I'm using Mdk7 and I had the
>same problem with Mdk6.0 & Mdk6.1. What in KDE
is
>> causing the harddrive & CPU to work so hard that I'm no longer able to use the
>mouse or do a ctrl-alt-bkspace?
>>
>How much RAM do you have, and how much SWAP space? What it
>SOUNDS like is that you're running out of RAM *and* running
>out of Swap space. If you've got less than 32 megs of RAM
>and don't have a TON of swap, I'd *STRONGLY* suggest that
>you need to upgrade your RAM.
> John
>