Problem is still active also I tried booting in console mode, it shows 12mb
free mem but again no shared memory 0kb. A kernel problem or something??Any
help?
Thanks...
Orkunt
>From: Blaise St-Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Orkunt Sabuncu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [expert] two problems. one with kcontrol one with shared
>memory usage
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:33:57 -0400
>
>On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:32, you wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have just installed LM8.0 on my PC. It can be really slow (P 200 48mb
> > ram) compared to newer PCs but I was really expecting better performance
> > from LM8.0.
> >
>I hate to say this, but if you are intending to run KDE, and (i'm assuming)
>you are running XFree 4.0.x, then 48 Mb of ram just won't cuting it for
>anything serious. XFree is using 42Mb on my system alone. Add to that
>another
>10Mb for Kdeinit, 5 for the windowmanager, and you're in swap land faster
>than you can open a Konsole.
>
> > I am using KDE as a desktop manager. when i use top i see that nearly
>all
> > of the ram is used. At first I thought it is in fact sharing the memory
>but
> > using top also says 0Kb for shared memory usage. I think it is quite
> > strange.
>
>that is rather strange. Have you done anything strange in your
>configuration?
>how much swap do you have on the box? I usually register anywhere from 9 Mb
>to 2 Mb per app...
> >
> > related with this when i open a application lets say konsole and close
>it,
> > the next time i open it i expect it loads faster but in fact it is not.
>It
> > waits just as the first opening maybe more. This is quite related with
> > shared memory usage i think. What are ur comments, I know KDE things are
> > resource eaters but as i said i amexpecting more from it in terms of
> > performance.
>
>You're probably right. A possible hypothesis is that since you are running
>entirely out of the swap memory, you won't see any noticeable performance
>increase.
> >
> > This is the first problem, the second one happened after i changed font
> > settings in KDE control application. I installed tahoma windows font
>and
> > set it to all font places where i see helvetica in Kcontrol. It worked.
>But
> > maybe related maybe not after that i cannot run KDE control application
> > from panel. It gives SIGSEGV signal , but from terminal it works ok..
> > strange.. I searched some logs (i think it was .xsessionerrors log);
>there
> > were lines related with kcontrol saying DCOP communication error.
> >
>
>though it wouldn't surprise me if this was related to the lack of memory, i
>don'thave a good answer for this.
>
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