Mainter Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 (edited) Hey, stopping by with a quick one for whoever is Linux conversant-(If you were wondering, other areas of life have been keeping me occupied/away from here...but I'm doing okay, so there you go.)I recently installed SUSE 10.1 via FTP, migrating from SUSE 10.0. I've noticed the RAM usage in 10.1 is markedly higher than it was in 10.0, to the point that I can't really run more than a terminal and YAST. i suspected a memleak, I've tried to renice and reset all the priorities on everything except for the kernel and X to 20, and it's still not enough....so, apparently there's a memleak somewhere in X, but it keeps denying me access to xdm even in root. I'm not currently on the machine right now, but if you want, I can boot it up tomorrow and try to post a top page, but I'm at the point that I'm willing to wait for the Mepis 6.0 final release on the 20th and install that...I was using SUSE because I wanted to explore an stable enterprise class distro, but sadly this isn't what I thought it would be.The new Mepis is Ubuntu based, and seems to have a lot of useful features...but, since Novell doesn't offer much in the way of support for its previous open SUSE releases, I'm stuck till they figure out where the bug is (or I come up on enough RAM to actually run it).It's too bad...I was looking forward to trying it out, but I'm dead in the water unless I come up with a solution to this.Also, I need to find the rtl8185 driver for a generic wireless card- ndiswrapper hasn't helped a bit, it doesn't recognize the XP firmware (despite the fact that it worked fine under 10.0)... Edited June 13, 2006 by Mainter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
naraku9333 Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 The rtl8180 driver may work. Im not sure what you meant by "its not allowing you access to xdm", can you stop it? /etc/init.d/xdm stop Does the memory usage steadilly increase until all memory is full? Does the system become totally unrespnsive? Is it memory or CPU usage that is the problem, IIRC changing niceness doesn't affect mem in the least. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mainter Posted June 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 it keeps increasingthe driver worked thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ham Blowfist Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 (edited) I'm wondering if Beagle is causing this,SUSE 10.1 is working great for me, but when Beagle indexes the hard drive - everything slows to a crawl. I'm not using it, so I disabled it.Have a look at top and see if this is the problem. Edited June 14, 2006 by Ham Blowfist Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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