>
>Yes, it makes sense. You have all the classic symptoms of not
>enough memory. Your problem is right here:
>
> > I have Red Hat Linux 7 running on a Pentium P1 200 with 32 MB Ram and 8 GB
> ^^
>and
> > in X (witnessed in KDE and GNOME)
> ^^^ ^^^^^
I can run X in a 486 with 32MB just fine; If this *is* the problem,
I suspect that you can save a lot of RAM by making sure all unneeded
services are turned off - I presume you do not need apache, wu-ftp,
nfs, etc. They can eat a lot of RAM.
If the system is just sitting there, it would not be swapping
anything to disk every second, or after being unattended for several
hours. If there is disk access while netscaping, that would be a
good indication that you are into seap space, though.
>
>If you use "free" or "top" to find out how much memory you're using,
>I'll bet you find it is way over 32 MB. Neither KDE nor Gnome is very
>lightweight as far as the memory footprint goes - I had a PowerMac with
>16MB that used KDE as the default desktop, and I'm pretty sure that it
>was using 48MB immediately after boot. Admittedly, I think that
>machine was using more memory than an x86 machine would, because it was
>that weird Linux-on-top-of-a-Mach-microkernel design, but not by more
>than about 2 megabytes. When you add Netscape to the mix, I think
>you're hitting swap space constantly.
>
>You may want to look into using one of the lighter weight GUIs instead
>of KDE or Gnome - e.g. use blackbox or WindowMaker. They won't be
>anywhere near as feature-full, but then again, they won't put you into
>swap space instantly, either.
>--
>Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
>Technology Coordinator
>Center for Educational Outcomes,
>C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College
>
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