Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Stan Glasoe <srglasoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 29 June 2006 04:01, Per Jessen wrote:
> John Pierce wrote:
> > Hello, I have installed opensuse 10.1 on an IBM T21 Thinkpad.  Machine
> > specs: Pentium 3 750 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, Belkin PCMCIA Wireless Ethernet
> > Adapter (based on the rt2500 chip set) basic thinkpad.
>
> Based on experience I would say 256Mb is probably a little low
> memory-wise.  It'll no doubt run fine, but could cause extensive
> swapping.
>
> > Other than this problem, I am happy with the performance on this
> > laptop, the problem however I cannot figure out.  Any where from 7 to
> > 10 times in a typical day this occurs, the hard driver activity light
> > lights up because of disc activity and the system becomes unusable
> > from 2 to about 5 minutes.
>
> Open a konsole and check what "top" says - which processes are running,
> what is the memory/swap situation.
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich

My experience is that 128MB is too low but 256MB is usually adequate for 
email, browsing, gkrellm monitor, ssh to another machine, etc. My htop or 
top or even the kcontrolcenter's memory monitor shows that just over 128MB, 
about 130MB+/-, is used logged into KDE with the previously mentioned 
programs running. Got 10.1 installed with 128MB but it ran very slow and 
took forever due to constant swapping. Found another 128MB module that 
works in that laptop and it runs much better. /swap is 519MB.

htop is a very nice alternative to top.

Stan

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