I've got a bunch of 64-bit Intel-based machines which I am slowly upgrading to OpenSuSE 11.1/KDE4.2 whatever. Some of those machines (quite a few, in fact) only have 1 GB of RAM. At 1 GB, or even at 2 GB, it seems like just starting the machine up and logging into it is enough to pretty much eat up all the RAM making the machine start swapping and go slow. Some programs would even not start or start crashing (whether that is RAM-related or not I don't know but machines with 3 GB or RAM or not do seem more stable).
Hence the question: is this normal? Is the OS simply configured for larger RAM configurations? Or am I doing something in a grossly inefficient or erroneous way?
Thanks for voicing your opinion.
Hmmm that is odd. A friend of mine is running openSUSE 11.1 with KDE4.3 on a system with 1GB of RAM and it's running fine... he can even play Left4Dead and World of Warcraft in Cedega on it with no issues. I cont' recall if he's using the 64bit or the 32bit install though... I know it's a 64bit AMD Athlon CPU. I wonder.. you say KDE4.x... have you looked at disabling Nepomuk/Strigi? This desktop search engine is on by default, and it is rather hard on system resources in my experience... with a default openSUSE/KDE4 install, you get BOTH desktop search indexing engines running... Beagle and Nepomuk. Beagle is reasonably well behaved these days and you shouldn't really notice it... but Nepomuk is not so nice, and will drag the system down until it's done indexing.... C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org