On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:06:42 -0400 (EDT), Gary Nichols wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
>
> > After several weeks of unsuccessful effort to install Linux on a desktop
> > I am giving up and returning to more profitable activities. I have
> > tried 3 different distributions (Mandrake 9.1, Red Hat 8.0 and Knoppix
> > 3.2) all with much hassle and no success. Some on this list have
> > alluded that I have a hardware problem yet the same PC was rock solid on
> > Windows 98 SE.
>
> Somehow I missed this discussion. What's wrong? What doesn't work?
> Perhaps I'll have to scan the archives later.
I went back three months of messages from this list and he never describes
his hardware or setup.
I found that 2.4 linux systems were barely using swap space. Instead it
was kill of process due to lack of memory. It wasn't until I installed
RH9 that I finally saw swap usage greater 20 MB. I'm current at 149 MB
and I have 256 MB of RAM.
-Paul
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