Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:18:27 +0000
andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> >> Although the man page will identify as a bug that the info in
> >> dmidecode can be completely wrong (!), this does show that I have
> >> 1024MB of RAM - i.e. 1GB. So, somewhere betwixt BIOS and fired up
> >> Etch I have lost recognition for 250MB-odd of memory.
> Thanks for your thoughts. On a note that might be related, I have
> just watched an *.avi video from the hard-drive using Totem and was
> drawing 100% CPU, with 42% of memory in cache. Perhaps this is
> normal ?
>
> My only strange experiences with Etch thus far are:
> * not having the full 1 GB stick recognised,
> * the heavy use of CPU,
> * the overflow into swap, and
> * the occasional hard freeze when burning DVDs after converting them
> from non-DVD formats
>
>
> Perhaps these issues are related? Could I have a bad stick of RAM? Is
> it software? Will the Knoppix and memtest86 CDs you mention help sort
> out which is which?
>
> Thanks for your thoughts.
>
> A
You still didn't answer any questions about the video card. Maybe you
have an on-board chipset with shared mem?
Regards,
Andrei
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