Anthony, my RAM in my K6-2 machine is 96meg.
With two netscape windows open and KDE I am using 29meg.
Mine don't use all the RAM at start. But 96 Meg is a lot.
I have run MacMillan Mandrake 5.2 and 6.0 with no problems.
I bought MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 recently and I experienced the same problems
Charles did on it being very slow.
Also 6.0 takes about 30 minutes to install, and this new 7.0 took 2:40.
Ridiculous.
I grabbed the Mandrake 6.0 and threw it back on the machine.
I sent 7.0 back, and I am still waiting on a refund from MacMillan.
fwiw
steve
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From: Anthony Huereca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:31:56 -0500
I'm not sure why your system is so slow, but I can explain the RAM
utilization.
I've found out (as I once complained about the same thing that you are) that
Linux uses RAM differently than Windows. It'll take up all "x" (in your case
256
MB) RAM soon after bootup. However, it shouldn't affect the performance at
all when you open program or anything. Instead of taking the Ram
in chunks like Windows, Linux just takes the whole thing at once. So don't
worry about seeing 100% ram utilization. Not sure why
Linux is slow though for you.
> my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've
already
> declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of
SDRAM@100mhz,
> I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a
> diamond viper v770.
>
> It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I
> forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a
> second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file
either.
> I don't understand.
>
> Thanks,
> Charles Ulwelling
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Vic
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
>
>
> What is your processor speed, and how fast is
> your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33,
> or scsi?
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed:
> > I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and
with
> > in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs
of
> > RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely
> > unuseable. I'm booting into KDE.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charles Ulwelling
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