From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 14:19:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD43516A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:19:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vogon.ccgis.de (vogon.ccgis.de [212.79.172.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FA043D39 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:19:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bt@ccgis.de) Received: from amavis by vogon.ccgis.de with virus-scanned (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DQnTb-0006p2-00 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:25:19 +0200 Received: from center.sz ([192.168.1.20] helo=center.shared) by vogon.ccgis.de with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DQnTT-0006of-00 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:25:11 +0200 Received: from [192.168.2.109] (helo=[192.168.2.109]) by center.shared with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DQnNz-0005E4-72 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:19:31 +0200 Message-ID: <426F9F7F.4000904@ccgis.de> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:19:43 +0200 From: Benjamin Thelen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: AMaViS-ng at Geo-Consortium Bonn Subject: 256 MB not enough RAM for Desktop-FreeBSD, a strange experience X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:19:42 -0000 Hi list, I started using FreeBSD as a Desktop in December 04 with the hardware configuration below FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 Asus TUSL-C with PIII-1133 256 MB RAM WDC WD800JB KDE 3.3.2 OOo-1.1.4 Very often OpenOffice-1.4 died on starting, just showing the splash screen. I couldn't kill the process, even not with "-9". So I had to reboot. Because of KDEs behavior to start applications, which have been used before, OpenOffice was started automatically on KDEs startup. Mostly successful. OpenOffice started a bit more reliable using XFCE4... In combination with this FreeBSD was hanging on the end of a shutdown: No buffers busy after final sync I didn't find very helpful information on the net, but since I added 256 MB of RAM I have never seen one of these errors. Does someone have any idea what that could have been caused? Adding more RAM, gaining stability, gaining speed, ok... Ben