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Problems with Mandrake - need help
I've decided to try Linux, so I've installed Mandrake 9. My PC is a PIII @ 500 Mhz with 256 Mb RAM.
The main problem I'm having is that it hangs whenever I use OpenOffice for some time - and sometimes with other applications, like Mldonkey. I thought that it may be a RAM problem, so I ran the gnome monitor thing, and it shows that Mandrake with KDE 3 uses 180 Mb !!! And when I start any application it immediately goes to 247 Mb. However the swap memory use is almost always 0, or may go to 15 Mb.
Is there a way to save/free some ram ? Any tweak? Other possible cause for the hangs?
Another question: how can I launch an application on start up?
Still another: how can I change the starting page in Konqueror? Default is a file in my PC about Mandrake, and it doesn't make me very happy - I'd rather set it to forum.cdrsoft.cc
Last edited by borogovio; 13-10-2002 at 12:14.
... all mimsy were the borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe...
Lewis Carrroll
open a terminal window
type "top"
what do you see there ?
Post the entire contents of the screen..!!
(use "q" to exit top)
Here is the result immediately after starting Mandrake:
4:34pm up 4 min, 2 users, load average: 0,22, 0,41, 0,19
62 processes: 60 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1,3% user, 1,1% system, 0,0% nice, 97,4% idle
Mem: 256956K av, 144972K used, 111984K free, 0K shrd, 7568K buff
Swap: 248968K av, 0K used, 248968K free 63248K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1361 root 17 0 53388 9M 2856 S 0,9 3,9 0:02 X
2140 jano 15 0 55044 14M 12380 R 0,7 5,9 0:01 kdeinit
2173 jano 16 0 1032 1032 816 R 0,7 0,4 0:00 top
1 root 8 0 484 484 420 S 0,0 0,1 0:04 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 keventd
3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 kapmd
4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0,0 0,0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 kswapd
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 bdflush
7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 kupdated
8 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0,0 0,0 0:00 mdrecoveryd
12 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 kjournald
127 root 8 0 968 968 768 S 0,0 0,3 0:00 devfsd
223 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 khubd
354 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 kjournald
773 root 8 0 516 516 448 S 0,0 0,2 0:00 dhcpcd
815 root 9 0 516 516 448 S 0,0 0,2 0:00 dhcpcd
900 rpc 9 0 532 532 448 S 0,0 0,2 0:00 portmap
916 root 9 0 584 584 476 S 0,0 0,2 0:00 syslogd
924 root 9 0 1132 1132 416 S 0,0 0,4 0:00 klogd
959 root 9 0 496 496 432 S 0,0 0,1 0:00 gpm
1154 xfs 9 0 4332 4332 908 S 0,0 1,6 0:00 xfs
1210 root 8 0 476 476 420 S 0,0 0,1 0:00 apmd
1229 root 9 0 1400 1400 1052 S 0,0 0,5 0:00 prefdm
1249 root 9 0 1096 1096 904 S 0,0 0,4 0:00 autologin
1262 daemon 9 0 504 504 436 S 0,0 0,1 0:00 atd
1285 root 9 0 492 492 420 S 0,0 0,1 0:00 saslauthd
1318 root 9 0 948 948 792 S 0,0 0,3 0:00 xinetd
1349 jano 9 0 1240 1240 948 S 0,0 0,4 0:00 startx
1360 jano 9 0 604 604 528 S 0,0 0,2 0:00 xinit
As it is difficult to read, I attach it as a txt file:
... all mimsy were the borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe...
Lewis Carrroll
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it hangs whenever I use OpenOffice
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OpenOffice hangs or the entire linux system hangs ?
Unix its Simple, but sometimes it takes a genious to understand the simplicity ---- Dennis M. Ritchie.
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GCS d- s: a- C++ UL++++$ C++++$ US+++$ UB+++$ P+++>+++++ ++$>++++ E+ W++ N++ o K? w++ O M V PS PE Y+ PGP+ t- 5 X+ R- tv+ b+ DI++ D++ G+ e h+ r++ y+
Re-Minix Core Developer
SCO ACE
Dead programmers society member
Menuet hacker
And more strings attached.
Entire linux hangs -
to be precise, it happens most of the times I use OpenOffice (usually, when I try to save !!), but also some other times, without using OpenOffice.
Is the RAM use normal?
... all mimsy were the borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe...
Lewis Carrroll
the ram use seems normal since the resident size its not too big, in fact i would suspect more on your memory simms or dimms.
Change your memory dimms or simms..
Unix its Simple, but sometimes it takes a genious to understand the simplicity ---- Dennis M. Ritchie.
Geek Code:
GCS d- s: a- C++ UL++++$ C++++$ US+++$ UB+++$ P+++>+++++ ++$>++++ E+ W++ N++ o K? w++ O M V PS PE Y+ PGP+ t- 5 X+ R- tv+ b+ DI++ D++ G+ e h+ r++ y+
Re-Minix Core Developer
SCO ACE
Dead programmers society member
Menuet hacker
And more strings attached.
But in Windows 2000 the used ram is only about 50 Mb !
... all mimsy were the borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe...
Lewis Carrroll
1.Linux is not like M$ products. Linux is better. That s why it just tries to get as many files in the RAM than possible. ( after the philosophie free memory is bad memory. ) The effect of getting many file in the ram is not a slowing down of the computer, but it just maks it faster, because the kernel doesn t has to search for it on the hd.
ok? does that answer your question?
2. To get a file as your start homepage, just give it "file://"location"/"filename""
Should work like that.
As you probably got the file in your home directory, use it as the following.
file://home/jano/FILENAME.html ( or whatever.
3. To launch an application on start up, there are different ways. Either your posing a shortcut to the file in ( i m not sure about the path ) /etc/shared/ked/kde3.0/startup/
or you put it into the boot.local, situated in ( now i m sure :-D ) /etc/init.d/
but therefore you have to be root.
Have fun using linux, and just don t swap back to m$ :-D as you did the right decision.
Thank you for all the info !!
... all mimsy were the borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe...
Lewis Carrroll
np
always proud to be able to help people. :-D
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