mandriva 2010 is slower than mandriva 2009 ?

mandriva2009 · 02-12-2010, 03:48 AM

I wondered whether the plasma-desktop cause that ??
I takes too much swap memory about 50% ,why is that ?
is there any thing that can be done ??

Thanks

raju.mopidevi · 02-12-2010, 05:12 AM

plasma comes with KDE4 which was unstable. upgrade your KDE to 4.3 then it will work nice.

mandriva2009 · 02-12-2010, 05:45 AM

I already have kde 4.3 ,at least that what is stated in the start menu !!
why does it use so many swap ??
enev when I run only firefox and evince !!

thnx

ongte · 02-12-2010, 06:44 AM

I'm running 2010. I've got a Gig of RAM. RAM usage with FF, OOo & GIMP open is < 500 MB. I've got 5 plasma widgets on desktop. Swap is totally untouched.
Try running 'top' to see what's eating up all your RAM.

mandriva2009 · 02-12-2010, 07:42 AM

well ,
the mem is used in about 50% ,chrome takes about 50 mb and evince about 25mb !
the swap is used in about 40% !

i have 512 mb of ram !

setlec_seta · 02-12-2010, 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mandriva2009

well ,
the mem is used in about 50% ,chrome takes about 50 mb and evince about 25mb !
the swap is used in about 40% !

i have 512 mb of ram !

ok do this:

Code:

# ps aux

or

Code:

# top -h

then copy the result in here to see what is using your ram.

Or make a screenshot of your system monitor.

mandriva2009 · 02-12-2010, 09:37 AM

here it is !!

setlec_seta · 02-12-2010, 09:44 AM

well this screenshot doesn't show nothing unusual... use the commands that i've wrote in my previous post and make a screenshot of the Ressources tab in the system monitor.

mandriva2009 · 02-12-2010, 09:58 AM

here it is !!
the ps aux gives nothing more than the system moniter gave !!

setlec_seta · 02-12-2010, 10:43 AM

please copy paste the result anyway the screenshot is just for curiosity... the commands are more important than screenshots!

anyway if you don't want do paste the info, i would suggest to reinstall your system or upgrade.... In my 7 years of linux experience i never used more than 10% of the swap.

PS: oh do you have an onboard GFX card? that might explain the use of the swap as you only have 1 GB of RAM, right?

mandriva2009 · 02-12-2010, 10:56 AM

here is the top output !

mandriva2009 · 02-12-2010, 11:13 AM

I have 512 MB of ram !!

what is GFX card ??

setlec_seta · 02-12-2010, 01:32 PM

gfx card is graphics card! this is odd you on that output it shows that you don't use all of RAM... i can't figure out why your system use the swap memory.

mandriva2009 · 02-13-2010, 02:57 AM

can this help ???
any suggestions please !

irajjs · 02-15-2010, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mandriva2009

can this help ???
any suggestions please !

Hello

I am using Mandriva 2007,so i still haven,t used neither of Mandriva 2009/2010,but studying your posts and,answers,i can conclude that There is no problem with your Mandriva 2010,but most possibly it,s related to your hard ware.....
Let,s open the problem:

-Usually newer versions are more complicated ,and more equipped(enhanced),so, do more,and as a result of that,use more (memory.....etc)

-As you said,your computers' RAM is 512 Meg,which is not enough(even if you do not notice any problems),so increase the RAM capacity as much as you can !

-To be sure about your software source,just use another(DVD) Mandriva 2010.

Regards