Alternatives to ubuntu?

[Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu)]

Hi All

I have a AMD64 with 1 GB RAM and my system was somtimes very slow. I 
noticed that Firefox is eating a lot of RAM, especally after I hit a 
page with JAVA.

And the gam_server did eat even more (1.5 GB RAM), so the system was 
"swapping" like hell. I killeed gam_server and everything was  fast again.
But I could not reproduce this problem today. I just think some updates 
I did in the meantime, did solve the problem, at least for the 
gam_server, it stays always at ~ 12 MB RAM, or I did not do the same 
things like before :-)

I just look at the usage of memory processes are using and I see java_vm 
uses 1.3 GiB. I don't remember I have done something with java today???

This process is sleeping, but if it wakes up, I am sure my system gets 
slow. -> swapping.

BTW, Firefox needs 358.1 MB at the moment, is sleeping too.

Thomas

J.Markoll wrote:

 > Patrick Newberry a écrit :
 >
 >> I've always been under the impression that KDE is much more resource
 >> intensive than gnome?
 >> Pat
 >
 >
 >
 >>     You'll more than likely find that this problem is due to the
 >> Gnome desktop, rather than Ubuntu itself - that's what I found. You
 >> might like to try some of the other desktops/window managers such as
 >> KDE, XFCE, etc.
 >
 >
 >
 >>     Personally, I just stuck another 256MB RAM in my system, because
 >> I like Gnome. That fixed the sluggish performance for me.
 >
 >
 > I've got 2x 256 Mo. But even with 512 Mo the GUI goes slow sometimes.
 >
 > Then I invoke qps to look in there. (Universe).
 > I can see several applications/tools with several processes and 
children processes started.
 > I don't know which are absolutely necessary and which are not, 
sometimes, and doubt about some of them.
 >
 > So I go to terminal after closing all applications running, and I 
kill all processes possible with a 'kill -9 -1'
 > Then I go back to the login interface and that's it. The GUI becomes 
as before. It does not happen too often but when it starts ...  :/
 >
 > I might test the memory soon again, I even had some slow processes 
under Ion3 these days, in fact.
 >
 > Now under Gnome:
 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 > $ free
 >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
 > Mem:        378008     245924     132084          0      19508      67236
 > -/+ buffers/cache:     159180     218828
 > Swap:       345356      63768     281588
 > $
 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 >
 > It uses swap whereas there is still some free memory... why ?
 >
 > Joyce Markoll.
 >
 >


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