I am not sure where I did wrong... I usually use customized install option choosing developement settings. I let it install with most of the packages except games at the package selection prompt. At the video settings I choose the normal 16 color with 600 * 800 without 3D acceleration. I changed the file system and operating system option in the bios from windows 2000/Me to Others. And I have windowsMe on the first partition and ext on the second. I didn't put /boot so installed bootloader in MBR. I have two IDE one for CDROM and one for my Hardisk, and 128 - 2 mb ram (2 usually for the video card). I use the KDE -> Information -> Memory to tell how much memory I have. It usually takes about 30mb for buffer and leaves about 2 ~ 3 mb free. Would it take less memory if I try to disable some of the startup services? Thanks Eric On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, civileme wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2001 04:59, Dave Sherman wrote: > > On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 21:41, Lin wrote: > > > hi, ever since I upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 I noticed the increase use of > > > buffering under KDE, but when I do open a new program such as netscape I > > > eventually ran out of memory and need to use disk swap - which the buffer > > > really doesn't help... could anyone help me on how to disable the memory > > > buffering under KDE? > > > <snip> > > How do you believe this is happening? Thiis seems more an interpretation of > data than the data itself. What steps did you take to notice this? If it is > a memory leak as you tend to describe here, it would be either a bad bug or s > seriously corrupted install. > > But linux uses memory and disk differently, so it may be only an > interpretation. Still, I did notice what appeared to be a memory leak which > was really a bad install not long ago. The computer involved had a WD and a > Maxtor on the same chanel and they were killing each other's data with timing > chatter. Separating the disks to different channels and reinstalling cured > the problem which had heretofore persisted through two reinstalls. > > Civileme > >
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