Christian A Str�mmen [Number1/NumeroUno] said at �Re: [expert] Slow system�. [2000-11-29 17:36] > On Wednesday 29 November 2000 16:02, you wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 November 2000 10:07 am, you wrote: > > > > Installed Mandrake 7.2 on my friends computer (AMD Duron 700 with > 256mb > > > > > > ram and a 30G 7200rpm ide disk), but everything seems to be going > > > terribly slow. Recompiling the kernel took about 8 hours, running X > and > > > even the light wmanager blackbox runs terribly slow. > > > > It sounds like the kernel isn't using all your memory. Check the output > > of the free command and see how much memory the kernel thinks it has to > > work with. If its not the full 256 try adding mem-256M to the line you > > enter at lilo to boot the kernel. If this works, edit lilo.conf to > > include append="mem=256M" in the options for the image. This is what I > > need to do for every box I have with over 128M of memory. > > hmm.. seems like that the kernel only thinks it has 64M ram, but adding > append="mem=256M" to lilo just makes it freeze after bootup, had to > remove mmm would not your mobo have an i810 or i815 (or in general, it has an on-board integrated VGA) ? In that case, the last 1Mb of memory has to be reserved for the on board VGA, so try with just mem=255M.
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