Need some Linux help

[Stang46]

I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my system. This is the first time I have ever installed Linux or used it.
Anyways, my system feels really sluggish and I noticed my memory usage is always at 90-95% used(in KDE and Gnome) right after a fresh boot. Applications are taking 10 seconds or more
to launch which seems way to long. Any suggestions on what I could try, again this is a totally fresh install? I have this running on a Athlon 650 with 128MB stick of ram.

 

[Stang46]

Okay I jsut ran ps -aux in the terminal and I noticed that I have 4 instances of the following appearing:
/usr/bin/galeon-b
With each taking up 20.7Mb of memory. This is after a totally fresh boot.Why are there 4 instances of that coming up?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

galeon-bin perhaps?

try killing it, then see what happens.

 

[EHobaX]

I tried 'drake on my home comp.

You can check it out if you want, and KDE seemed to run sluggish on mine as well.
Anyways, I've switched to RH 7.2 and use Fluxbox. It's faster than crap through a goose.

You may want to try switching windows managers on it. I know it has the blackbox window manager as an install option for other windows managers in 'drake.

 

[Buddha Bart]

fyi your memory usage should always be pretty high in linux, it just uses everything it can.

Becomes a horkin pain when youre trying to get a few Linux VM's on a 390 system to not take up all the damn ram.

bart

 

[Nothinman]

/usr/bin/galeon-b
With each taking up 20.7Mb of memory. This is after a totally fresh boot.Why are there 4 instances of that coming up?

I could be wrong, but I believe that 20M is shared between then, it's just tools like ps and top have no way to determin this

Becomes a horkin pain when youre trying to get a few Linux VM's on a 390 system to not take up all the damn ram.

You can adjust the VM parameters via /proc/sys/vm (IIRC), might help a little bit. But in genereal, yea, Linux will use all available memory for file caching.