On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Vakvarju wrote:
I have a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz with 1G of RAM and instaled the SuSe 7.3 Professional distribution.
The installed system is very unstable and once and a while it just reboots without a warning.
The behaviour remains the same if i boot in failsafe mode.
As some of the ppl wrote before me it is adviceable to install a more recent version of SuSE on such a new hardware. Also the growing memory is normal, the buffered and cached part of the memory use is growing in the time as you are using the system, it is a normal linux behaviour to
I have SuSE Linux 7.3 on an Athlon XP 2100 (very different from a P4 I think, but also new ...) but only 512 MB memory. $ uptime 12:20pm up 4 days, 18:05, 5 users, load average: 1.02 Yes I crashed it (or at least I crashed X) four days ago, with darned Netscape 7 I think. I hit the case reset button afair. I have a pre-order in for 8.2 $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 514972 509428 5544 0 13760 147532 -/+ buffers/cache: 348136 166836 Swap: 152576 876 151700 'free' is an easier way to check memory usage than 'top' on SuSE Linux. The second line of numbers is the important one for performance. I find the 'Mem used' number on the first line grows close to 'Mem total' a few hours after boot. (My swap space is much too small according to all guidelines - but I rarely need swap anyway - only 1 or 2 light users - I will fix this some time.) I think we have drifted off-topic. dproc