----- Original Message ---- From: ET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:51:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?
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? ----cjs reply---- The mouse was a bit choppy, but it wasn't like it was lagging. I'm running a celeron 3.22 ghz (512k l2 cache), with 512 mb memory shared. I dont have any available partitioning space left on the hard drive so i dot think i can install mandriva (if im right, mandriva still requires a swap partition correct?) because i don't have any space left for a Linux partition. Also, my hard drive will not accept any other sort of partition except ntfs. The only way i can install Linux is to install a another hard drive or use a VM (which i don't have enough ram to do such a thing in windows xp since i only have like 100 mb ram left :{ ). However, i incidentally dropped my other hard drive (it was a 5 foot fall) and it doesn't work anymore. If i were to have another hard drive available i would definately install mandriva, but would mandriva run on 100 - 200 mb ram (i have aprogram that allows me to compress the files in my ram, so i can get up to 280 mb out of it, but xp runs really slow after optimizing my ram) ----end of reply---- -- reg. Linux User 167806 webhome http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
