under GNOME it's called magicdev, and you can't remove it w/o a --force to
RPM as there are other package that claim to need it.
--rdp
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, ed wrote:
> Check for an autorun process, which is the process to detect media change
> in the CD. I have found this process is a huge resource hog and I
> disabled it to fix a similar problem.
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Stephen Ryan wrote:
>
> > On 20 Nov, Bourdon, Bruce wrote:
> > > I have Red Hat Linux 7 running on a Pentium P1 200 with 32 MB Ram and 8 GB
> > > hard drive.
> > >
> > > I noticed that the hard drive LED was flickering about once a second while
> > > in X (witnessed in KDE and GNOME) but goes away if I exit X Windows.
> > >
> > > I left the system alone in X for hours Saturday. When I returned the hard
> > > drive was running continuously and it took about ten seconds for the mouse
> > > pointer to move in response to physically moving the mouse.
> > >
> > > Any Ideas?
> > >
> > > Also, I had Win95 on this box (still got it on a seperate drive) & browsing
> > > there is MUCH faster than Linux/Netscape.
> > >
> > > Does this make sense?
> > >
> > > Bruce.
> >
> > Yes, it makes sense. You have all the classic symptoms of not
> > enough memory. Your problem is right here:
> >
> > > I have Red Hat Linux 7 running on a Pentium P1 200 with 32 MB Ram and 8 GB
> > ^^
> > and
> > > in X (witnessed in KDE and GNOME)
> > ^^^ ^^^^^
> >
> > If you use "free" or "top" to find out how much memory you're using,
> > I'll bet you find it is way over 32 MB. Neither KDE nor Gnome is very
> > lightweight as far as the memory footprint goes - I had a PowerMac with
> > 16MB that used KDE as the default desktop, and I'm pretty sure that it
> > was using 48MB immediately after boot. Admittedly, I think that
> > machine was using more memory than an x86 machine would, because it was
> > that weird Linux-on-top-of-a-Mach-microkernel design, but not by more
> > than about 2 megabytes. When you add Netscape to the mix, I think
> > you're hitting swap space constantly.
> >
> > You may want to look into using one of the lighter weight GUIs instead
> > of KDE or Gnome - e.g. use blackbox or WindowMaker. They won't be
> > anywhere near as feature-full, but then again, they won't put you into
> > swap space instantly, either.
> > --
> > Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
> > Technology Coordinator
> > Center for Educational Outcomes,
> > C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College
> >
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