Problems with Mandrake - need help !

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borogovio

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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 :D
 
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bzImage

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open a terminal window

type "top"

what do you see there ?

Post the entire contents of the screen..!!

(use "q" to exit top)
 
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borogovio

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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:
 

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borogovio

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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?
 
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bzImage

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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..
 
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maradong

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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.
 
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