Hi, I'm having memory problems on my RH7 system.
It all started when I upgraded RAM from 128 to 256Mb and downloaded Red
Carpet Updater, Evolution 0.9, and Nautilus from <www.gnome.org> -
attempted updates via Red Carpet failed due to lack of memory (I may
have been trying to download too large numbers of files in one go) and
system performance degenerated with RH7 grinding away slowly while my
Win98 drive seemed to have immediate acceleration ...
df in bash showed
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Filesystem 1Kblocks Used Available Use%
Mounted On
/dev/hdb1 303344 255825 31858 89%
/
/dev/hdb6 1336072 547716 720484 44%
/home
/dev/hdb5 8064272 1743588 5911032 23%
/usr
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I decided to delete evolution-0.9 which was buggy and crashing and
Nautilus which has been described as 'eye-candy' - nice to look at but
taking up heaps of memory. Using file-manager to delete evolution-0.9 I
received the message
'cannot delete file "home/adam/evol-config-cal.png"
Permission denied (13)'
I DID manage to finally delete Evolution-0.9 and Nautilus via Gnome
file-manager (I am not entirely sure why - perhaps I simply got the
filename right) and for a while Red Carpet Updates were successful when
done in small amounts - 2-3 files (and dependencies) at a time.
The rm command did not seem to work in attempting to delete Cronos-II (a
word-processor downloaded from www.gnome.org) and 'du' included - at the
end of printout
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188 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/intl
260 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/po
88 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/src/xpm
936 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/src
144 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/images
20 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/pixmaps
24 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/doc/C/cronosII
52 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/doc/C
72 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/doc
20 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/man
20 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/plugins/sample
56 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0/plugins
3508 ./.Trash/cronosII-0.2.0
49092 ./.Trash
559380
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I thought I had deleted cronosII via
'rm cronosII*'
but am still getting this readout. I don't understand why I have so much
stuff apparently sitting Trash: I thought that 'rm' removed stuff
irrevocably in Linux.
Last night, rather this morning (till 2AM) I tried to upgrade RH7.0
->7.1 which I had done previously from 6.2.
When pressing the final 'next' button for install I received the
message that I needed 40Mb more memory in the '/' partition and had to
abort ...
df showed
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Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available
Use% Mounted On
/dev/hdb1 303344 286121 1562
100% /
/dev/hdb6 1336072 559400 708800 45%
/home
/dev/hdb5 8064272 2386248 5268372 32%
/user
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I seem to have the option of deleting the number of installed files -
which I had already done to some extent, deleting as many KDE files as I
could - or doing a completely new RH7.1 install to wipe all previous
files, thereby solving memory problems. I would rather try, first, to
understand what has happened in order to avoid any repetition.
I had been assured that 10Gb was more than ample for RH so I am a bit
confused by it all. Unanswered questions include - is it good practice
to leave rpm packages in dir /home/adam where they just take up space ?
Having gone to some lengths to find and download them, I'm reluctant to
get rid of them too easily.
I'm keen to finish the upgrade ASAP as RH7.1 has a firewall and other
goodies.
Adam Bogacki,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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