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
this earlier because of that error. This might be my problem, but still,
shouldn't X with blackbox run quite smoothly on a 64M system? Can it be
something with the hard-drive?
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