Polar Humenn,
On Tuesday March 04, 2003 11:49, Polar Humenn wrote:
> > Does "free" show that all the memory is recognized properly?
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 254556 222996 31560 0 39064 45084
> -/+ buffers/cache: 138848 115708
> Swap: 265032 166120 98912
>
> Anything look amiss?
Well, it does if this is accurate... (you stated)
>> I've got a dual-pentium 800Mz with 512MB RAM.
It's not recognizing all of your RAM. It is also using a lot of swap. Those
swaps will make it seem slow. My system with 512MB lookslike this (KDE with
~20 apps running and a lot of services)...
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 513844 355600 158244 0 30224 169908
-/+ buffers/cache: 155468 358376
Swap: 394116 0 394116
Try putting
append="mem=512M"
in your [lilo | grub].conf
> Should I recompile the kernel or something? Otherwise, does anybody have
> another Linux I can use that works well, and updates well?
Recompiling the kernel may help, but it would just be a guess. If you really
have 512MB of RAM, get that working first. Stopping the swapping should help
a LOT.
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