Memory needs by KDE

d4d4n9 · 11-05-2003, 01:33 AM

Hi all,
Previously, I have PIII 500MHz 64MB box. I tried to install Mandrake 9.1 and what I got? I just can load icewm desktop. When I set to KDE, the screen just show background without real desktop

. Now I have added 128MB to give 192MB, but I still could not get KDE desktop, but can GNOME.
Does my specification not support KDE ?
Hoping advice from this forum

Thanks in advance.

dalek · 11-05-2003, 02:12 AM

I used to run Linux on a 400MHz 128MB rig. It was slow and such but it worked. On my rig it takes about 80 to 90MBs when I boot and no apps running. Yours may vary more or less.

It could be a bad installation though. You may want to see if you can remove KDE and reinstall from Gnome. That may help.

If you can get to 256Mb of memory, that will be really good. Also make sure you have at least 300 to 400MBs of swap. It will need that for sure.

Later

hulkt · 11-05-2003, 05:52 AM

disable all daemons (services) you dont need. that will be a good start. then try to tweak your comp by compiling the kernel...

bigVoice · 11-05-2003, 06:32 AM

I agree with dalek.

I had a default installation of Mandrake 9.1 running on a machine considerably worse then yours just to see "if it would work". It did, (but granted it was slow). That would lead me to think that the installation you did somehow crapped out. If re-install is an option, I'd start over, otherwise try to uninstall and reinstall your window managers.

magpie · 11-05-2003, 07:32 AM

Redundant reply now, but it sounds to me like you need to start again from scratch, as well. I had stock 9.1/KDE running without trouble on my 233 laptop with 128 ram. I now have 9.2 and performance is much better, especially with all chrome except antialiased fonts turned off. Unless you have an LG CDrom, might even be worth upgrading to 9.2 just for the performaance increase - it really is quite substantial on a low spec box.

Cheers,
M

dukeinlondon · 11-05-2003, 11:23 AM

How much of that have you got ? Get 512MB and is should feel a lot better.

Type 'free -k' to find out

d4d4n9 · 11-05-2003, 08:02 PM

Thanks for information that you all gave me

I played around with linux for two weeks now, so you can say that I just open my eyes to get familiar with linux. I can not imagine me to tweak my box yet. But who knows later

Got to learn much . . .
I have 500MB for swap and may be my installation CDs were not read correctly by my hardware. Should get another CDs, perhaps. Thought that I can not download ISO due to slow internet connection thru my ISP.