On Tuesday 25 February 2003 20:28, robin wrote:
> Rodolfo Lima wrote:
> > Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of
> > RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lan The problem is that the whole
> > installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole
> > was slow, even the menu drawing (the installation was in text/expert
> > mode). And afterwards, KDE launching speed was unusable, as any other
> > program launch. What might be happening? Do the kernel have to be
> > tweaked in some way? Any incompatibilities?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Rodolfo Lima.
>
> You need a lot more RAM or a much lighter window manager (IceWM, Fluxbox
> ... take your pick). There is no way you can run KDE 3.0 on 32MB of RAM
> - you need 128MB for even tolerable speeds, and 512MB would be necessary).
>
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I must beg to dissagree because of first hand experance. Right now I am
running Mandrake 9.0 on a IBM thinkpad 266 MHZ and 64 MB of ram and often
use KDE 3.0 and the speeds are tolorable. Slower than win 98 on the same
machine but not all that much slower. I tried 9.0 on a Toshiba Tecra laptop
with a 133 Mhz P1 and 80 mb of ram it was MUCH slower. I would guess about
20% or less the speed of the 266 mhz thinkpad even though the Toshiba had
more ram. The installation on the toshiba also took AT LEAST 2 and probably 3
times longer than on the thinkpad.
All that I can assume is that there was something going on with the hardware
on the toshiba useing up lots of memory and or other resorces I never did
figure out what the problem was the Toshiba was too much of a worn out piece
of crap to invest much time and effort in But I can say due to some kind of
hardware difference the IBM with only 64 mb of ram runs at a reasonable speed
witn ML 9.0 and KDE 3.0 where as the toshiba with 80 MB was all but unuseable
with LOTS of crashes.
It sounds to me like Rodolfo may be having a similar problem however I will
admit that 32 MB of ram is a bare minimum.
As far as 32 MB being barley enough for Windoze 98 i have seen win 98
running on 3 machines with only 16 MB of RAM. It is VERY slow but I have seen
people run for years like that at least for basic simple tasks.
BTW I did just receive another 128 MB of Ram and will be installing it in
the IBM in the next day or so. I am thinking about doing some sort if
benchmark test to see how big a differance 3 times the memory makes
Marc
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