Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: Have you checked for unnecessary servers? What were the main CPU and memory consumers? I don't know. as a rule, when you have slagishness problems - don't just go installing something else. instead, run the few tools you have on linux to diagnose

Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, guy keren wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: Have you checked for unnecessary servers? What were the main CPU and memory consumers? I don't know. as a rule, when you have slagishness problems - don't just go installing something else. instead, run

Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Eli Marmor
guy keren wrote: you answered a different question then what tzafrir asked (or you might have meant to say you didn't run konqueror at all? note, konqueror, not KDE) By the way: When you run simultaneously apps of GNOME and KDE, let's say 50%-50%, what Desktop Manager is recommended? i.e. is

Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Oded Arbel
List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:46 AM Subject: Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1 guy keren wrote: you answered a different question then what tzafrir asked (or you might have meant to say you didn't run konqueror at all? note, konqueror, not KDE

Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Tzafrir! On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:16:08AM +0200, you wrote the following: shift-m to sort by memory with top. The X server may have a big ammount of memory listed there, but this is normal. Also keep in mind that a multi-threaded process appears there as multiple processes with exactly

Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Eli Marmor
Oded Arbel wrote: I think that under these conditions, KDE should be used as the desktop environment - as most KDE apps share tremendous amounts of code (see kdeinit), then loading the kicker and kwin should produce very slight overhead, in comaprison with GNOME's panel and window manager

Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Shaul Karl
Also, maybe not all of yout 256MB was recognized? As a last resort you may need to add a boot-time parameter to the kernel (e.g append= in lilo.conf) of MEM=255M (slightly less than 256M) Why not MEM=256M? -- Shaul Karl email: shaulka (replace these parenthesis with @)

Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: Also, maybe not all of yout 256MB was recognized? As a last resort you may need to add a boot-time parameter to the kernel (e.g append= in lilo.conf) of MEM=255M (slightly less than 256M) Why not MEM=256M? We used LILO and it was recognized.

What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all. I installed Mandrake 8.1 on my friend's computer which is a Pentium 200 MHz with 256 MB of RAM. I used Kernel 2.4.x, XFree86 4.1.0 and the rest of the default MDK configuration. We used Vanilla IceWM as the desktop. From some reason, it ran very sluggishly. After we downgraded to

Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all. I installed Mandrake 8.1 on my friend's computer which is a Pentium 200 MHz with 256 MB of RAM. I used Kernel 2.4.x, XFree86 4.1.0 and the rest of the default MDK configuration. We used Vanilla IceWM as the desktop. From some reason, it ran

Re: What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all. I installed Mandrake 8.1 on my friend's computer which is a Pentium 200 MHz with 256 MB of RAM. I used Kernel 2.4.x, XFree86 4.1.0 and the rest of the default MDK configuration. We used