Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:19:43 +0200 From: Benjamin Thelen <bt@ccgis.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 256 MB not enough RAM for Desktop-FreeBSD, a strange experience Message-ID: <426F9F7F.4000904@ccgis.de>
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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
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