Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:50:55 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: Benjamin Thelen <bt@ccgis.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 256 MB not enough RAM for Desktop-FreeBSD, a strange experience Message-ID: <20050427185055.70fdb830@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <426F9F7F.4000904@ccgis.de> References: <426F9F7F.4000904@ccgis.de>
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:19:43 +0200 Benjamin Thelen <bt@ccgis.de> wrote: > 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. I have an 4 yers old desktop at the office: Athlon@1G, 256MB RAM which runs happily gnome and openoffice. > Does someone have any idea what that could have been caused? Adding > more RAM, gaining stability, gaining speed, ok... Possibly some hardware-related stability since maybe it doesn't use all the memory, it had to swap less, .. It's hard to tell without some debug info. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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