On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Nikhil Kala <nikhilrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All, > <snip> > After this if I try to work with Eclipse it gets slow, like a PC having > 512MB RAM. Try the `top` command on a terminal. It should give you useful information as to which process is taking up how much of CPU time and memory. It will also show you your CPU load averages along with memory and swap usage. You can sort the information on various fields. Press 'h' to have a look at various options available. You can post the output of `top -b -n1` on the list if you want people to have a look at it. Also, try booting in after disabling ACPI using 'acpi=off' as a kernel option. Defective ACPI (due lack of proper drivers) can cause the kernel ACPI thread to take up almost 100% CPU making the machine extremely slow. > Secondly the if I am using 8 GB of Physical RAM then it should show 8GB but > it shows only 3 GB. > As people have already suggested, you should think of using a 64 bit distribution. If that is absolutely not possible, then you can still make use of all 8GB of RAM by enabling 'HIGHMEM' support in the kernel. My 2 cents... HTH. Best regards, Pranav http://pranavsbrain.peshwe.com -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to plug-mail-requ...@plug.org.in for mailing instructions.
