A more appropriate way of putting it is that Linux uses memory very differently... http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/x1977.html#AEN2097 And http://home.earthlink.net/~jknapka/linux-mm/vmoutline.html -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Scott J Julian Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:57 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Re: Off the Wall Questions On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 19:31, Joe Dunsmore wrote: > > 500Mhz and 192Meg of RAM is slow???!!!! > > It's not slow, but sometimes I run out of memory. As time goes on, > this happens less frequently however. > > > My primary is a 750Mhz Duron with 768Meg of RAM running Win98SE > > (yeah, > > > > yeah, I know). > > My secondary is a 400Mhz Intell with 384Meg of RAM running > > Mandrake9.1 > > > > and it works great. Actually both PCs work great. I have no problems > > with "speed" on either machine. > > you have quite a bit more memory than I do. > > > I may be way off base here,(let the flames begin!) but it seems that > > Redhat is following in Microsoft's footsteps by "bloating" the > > so-called "basic" system, which in turn creates a slower system. At > > least with SUSE you can choose a "bare-bones" install. My advice. > > Reload the system and this time manually go through the applications > > that are loaded and > > but wouldn't that just take up room on my hard drive, not my memory? > > > prune out some of the stuff that you never use, maybe even consider > > going with Slackware or VectorLinux or Debian. I've got a great > > article that I printed out that guides you through installing a very > > "base" > > Debian system, I think it takes less than 500Megs of disk space. I > > could probably scan it and send it out, or maybe even find the URL > > on the printout. I never accept the "default" application load on > > any operating system, Linux or Windows. > > I plan on trying out a lot of different distros, but most of my memory > is taken up by X and gnome, how's redhat actually come into play here? > Could it be that gtk takes up more space than related windows > libraries and that when I use mozilla, this results in stuff in memory > not doing anything? I'll repeat that actually right now, my system > isn't going into virtual memory but when I was first using it, that > would happen constantly, even when using the same apps. > Im running Mandrake 9.2 with a gig of pc2100 on a xp2100 cpu, seems to me that linux uses alot more memory than my win2k install, still plenty left though, havent gone under 500mb free yet > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list