[NCLUG] Mandrake 8.1 installed again.

[M Butcher]

Hmmm... that's interesting. I have three systems running 8.1, and I haven't 
experienced that sort of thing with any of them. One of them only has 64M of 
RAM in it (and it's a K6-2), and though I could probably get it to start 
swapping if I tried, daily use (Mozilla, XMMS, Enlightenment) hasn't done it.

Maybe some more specifics would help. How many services are you starting at 
boot? Are you running a lot of servers? What desktop apps are you running? 
What are you usually doing when it starts swapping?

Matt


On Saturday 03 November 2001 09:10, you wrote:
> My experiance with mandrake was that, even though it was a smooth install,
> it was a horrible system to run. It was extreemly slow because I loaded so
> many things and it used up about 150MB of RAM on boot and went into swap
> within a few hours.
>
> Now I read about people lauding the praises of Mandrake and I'm wondering
> if I did something wrong on the install... Can anybody think what that
> might have been?
>
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:03:23 -0700, BOF <bof at pcisys.net> wrote:
> > Les wrote:
> > > My only complaint so far is that I can't find xman on the system
> > > yet.
> >
> > I don't see xman on the RPMS page for Mandrake, so I wonder if it
> > comes with it.
> >
> > Have you tried the commands
> >
> >     whereis xman
> >
> > or
> >
> >     find / -name "xman*"
> >
> > to see if it is installed?
> >
> > > Also I'm trying to figure out how to re-order the boot loader so it
> > > defaults to windows.
> >
> > The man page "lilo.conf" covers this well. You'll need to add some
> > lines to /etc/lilo.conf:
> >
> >      prompt
> >      timeout=50
> >      default=win98
> >
> > and the stanza
> >
> >      other = /dev/hda1
> >      table = /dev/hda
> >      label = win98
> >
> > This is assuming that Windows is installed on /dev/hda, the first hard
> > drive and that it is in the first partition, /dev/hda1. If you don't
> > want to call it  "win98", you can name it whatever. Just don't put any
> > spaces in it, and keep it short.
> >
> > The prompt and timeout will allow you to chose whichever you want at
> > boot time, with the system waiting 5 seconds and then booting into
> > win98.
> >
> > Thus the full lilo.conf file will look something like this (this is
> > from my RH setup, with lines for win98 added):
> >
> >      boot=/dev/hda
> >      map=/boot/map
> >      install=/boot/boot.b
> >      prompt
> >      timeout=50
> >      message=/boot/message
> >      default=redhat
> >
> >      image=/boot/vmlinuz
> >       label=redhat
> >       read-only
> >       root=/dev/hda6
> >
> >      other=/dev/hda1
> >       table=/dev/hdb
> >       label=win98
> >
> >
> > Don't forget to run /sbin/lilo -v after editing the /etc/lilo.conf
> > file to set the changes before rebooting.
> >
> > BOF
> >
> >
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