I have heard that there is some problems with
ATA drives, but don't quote me on that I am
not sure.
Are the drives running at full speed? I mean
66, 33, or regular ide speed?
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed:
> my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already
> declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz,
> I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a
> diamond viper v770.
>
> It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I
> forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a
> second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either.
> I don't understand.
>
> Thanks,
> Charles Ulwelling
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Vic
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
>
>
> What is your processor speed, and how fast is
> your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33,
> or scsi?
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed:
> > I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with
> > in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of
> > RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely
> > unuseable. I'm booting into KDE.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charles Ulwelling
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