CJ Kelley wrote:
----- Original Message ----
From: Georgi Stoynev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 12:56:37 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is
there a way to reduce that?
I ran the mandriva live cd (the 1 cd distro) and
noticed that it consumed a large chunk of ram (about
390 megs.) and left me with 4 megs of ram (i have 512
installed and 128 megs of that is consumed by teh
video card..yes i do have shared video). I went into
its task manager to see howmuch it was consuming and
what processes i could clsoe out. A great majority of
the processes looked like system processes.
Would the installed mandriva take less ram (since i
was using the live cd) ?
How can i keep un-necessary processes from loading
when mandriva loads?
--cj
Hi,
you can check exactly how much ram your system use by
typing "free" in the terminal(Konsole if you use
KDE).Do you have swap partition enabled?If not,is good
idea to create one.Swap is virtual memory,the same
like pagefile in Win.
For example there is my system:
free
total used free shared
buffers cached
Mem: 288088 283544 4544 0
17272 150948
-/+ buffers/cache: 115324 172764
Swap: 578332 0 578332
You can see that my available physical memory is about
4.5MB.Anyway,this doesn't effect my work,because it
can use the swap partition.You can enable swap with
"swapon" command (check man swapon for more info).
Have a good one!
G.S.
----cjs reply----
Since i do not have a linux partition on my hard drive (and im runnign
it on the live cd) i cant use swap. but by default, swap will be
enabled. I never recommend taking off swap.
----end of reply----
the live CD creates as large a dynamic ram disk as is possible, the OS
is all in memory all the time, you will find that opening files will be
quicker in the hard drive install (hard drive seek and reads being so
much quicker than CDrom reads and seeks)
were you having low ram problems like the the mouse curser jumping
around and not able to keep up?
--
reg. Linux User 167806
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