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 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com