Gee I just did that and noticed myself that Linux thinks I have 61 megs of ram
but I have 64. Does anyone know how to change this?
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, you wrote:
> Irsan,
> I'm having a similar problem, except I have even more memory than you do.
> When I run free -m I get the following results.
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 10 9 1 5 1 2
> -/+ bufffers/cache: 4 5
> Swap: 101 15 86
>
> As you can see, linux thinks I only have 10meg of memory!! I even added the
> append='128MB' statement to the lilo.conf, but no difference. Run the
> free -m command and see if you get similar results.
>
> kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Irsan S. P. Siregar
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 12:03 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Making KDE run faster
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I just installing (and start using) Mandrake 5.3. However, I feel
> that KDE access my HD a lot, and it's slow (compared to Windoze 95).
> Is it normal, or is there a way to speed it up?
>
> My system is:
> - Pentium 133
> - 32 MB RAM
> - Quantum Fireball 6.4 GB (Linux Native and Swap are here)
> - Conner CFS850A (slave, not mounted in Linux)
> I use the command
> hdparm -t -T /dev/hda
> to check for HD performance. I forgot the result, but it's quite
> fast.
>
> BTW, is there a utility similar to MCLK (DOS utility to overclock
> graphic card) for Linux? I run KDE with 1024 x 768 x 16bpp with
> S3 ViRGE, and in its default clock speed, it's slow.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Irsan SPS
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