On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 05:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:01:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Since installing RH I have been using KDE. I just switched to the command line > > and was shocked. I downloaded the kernel again and it took 258 seconds > > - although I got one strange message about "eth0: Runt packet"! > > > > Can this really be so. Is it reallly the case that things so down so much if > > started from within KDE. > > I wrote to a newsgroup to see if I could get any other thoughts on my problem. > So far I have got only one reply. It suggests that the answer to my problem is > simply that ... well it's easy to paste the reply: > > > It's simple. You don't have enough memory. KDE requires a lot of memory, > more than you have, and the download time difference arises from disk > paging activity, not network speed. > > I have a PIII 1000Mhz processor and 256MB of memory. >
Hard for me to imagine this is not an oversimplification. try running vmstat 1 in a VT to establish a baseline looking at swap activity while downloading then do the same in KDE. ^C will stop vmstat the 1 tells vmstat to print stats every second. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
