From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 15:50:23 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 6E39A16A50E for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:50:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDED543D1F for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:50:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 15553 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2005 15:43:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 27 Apr 2005 15:43:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 9630 invoked by uid 89); 27 Apr 2005 16:02:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (82.76.1.117) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Apr 2005 16:02:00 -0000 Received: from buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85EF618F; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:50:19 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [192.168.0.10]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:50:19 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C3139C; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:51:00 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:50:55 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Benjamin Thelen Message-ID: <20050427185055.70fdb830@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <426F9F7F.4000904@ccgis.de> References: <426F9F7F.4000904@ccgis.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: on buh by ClamAV using ClamSMTP cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 15:50:23 -0000 On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:19:43 +0200 Benjamin Thelen 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"