On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Doug Koobs wrote:
> I have run KDE2 on this laptop with Gentoo, and I don't recall having
> any problems. It does run fluxbox and other spartan windows managers
> quite well.
You mean, nothing complains when you run them, or video seems fine when
you run them?
> > 192MB system memory, and I think 4MB on the trident video card
> >
> >4MB should be enough for 1024x768@32bit with a meg left over for driver
> >slop and caches...
> Actually, I think I have 2.5 MB of memory. Just running a default
> Slackware 9.1, at 1024x768, 16 bit color depth
1024x768@16bit needs 1.5MB minimum.
> >>top's summary:
> >> 00:44:40 up 7:31, 3 users, load average: 0.44, 0.55, 0.40
> >>
> >>
> > ^^^^
> >That's a high load for sitting around doing nothing,
Somebody else commented about a high CPU-not-idle percentage. Were this
and this
> 23:27:57 up 44 min, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.06, 0.08
when you were running different software? The load average does not
reflect the amount of time spent in interrupts (such as the video driver,
or USB, or serial port, or parallel port, etc.). One of the CPU states
(system?) may. Yours is low, so no worries there.
> 23:27:57 up 44 min, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.06, 0.08
> 60 processes: 59 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.9% user 0.9% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 98.0% idle
> Mem: 191268k av, 182592k used, 8676k free, 0k shrd, 22388k buff
> 69876k active, 97524k inactive
> Swap: 192772k av, 0k used, 192772k free 91084k cached
No swap usage, so you're still not low on RAM,
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
> 1147 root 14 0 1024 1024 816 R 1.5 0.5 0:00 0 top
> 1131 root 11 0 14660 14M 13248 S 0.3 7.6 0:02 0 kdeinit
> 1 root 8 0 240 240 208 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 0 init
> 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd
> 3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
Also no processes using a lot of CPU time.
> Maybe I just need a faster laptop? I have run Win2K on this laptop, it
> perfomred nicely, so I'm pretty sure X windows and KDE should be OK....
Well, W2K may have a faster video driver. Are there any options as to
what you could choose? I know with some Nvidia cards there is.
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