CJ Kelley wrote:
----- 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.
sure it will... what sort of drive is this?
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)
forget what you know about how ram is used in XP when in Linux. they
have completly different ways of using ram, and a ram opitmizer for XP
will do nothing for you (except screw the pooch) in linux. (imho, M$ ram
managers are all broken)
you may be able to install on free space, if you run scan disk and
defrag in MS first, so all the data is moved to one end of the disk, but
you should allow about 10 gigs for either OS, then extra for data.
256 megs ram should be fine, even with shared video memory...
--
reg. Linux User 167806
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