RedHat 9.0 is hanging...

[GrayCalx]

I installed RedHat 9.0 last night (twice actually in vain attempts to get it to work). Basically if I load up openoffice or some other application it will run stable. But, if I open Mozilla for more than 10-15 minutes it usually ends up hanging. Whenever I try to download something, it will hang then. Any ideas?

Its running on a duron, and I had overclocked it at one point. How does Red Hat deal with overclocking?

[fbs1992]

how much ram do you have?
i have 768mb and if i check the system monitor its usually hovering around 700 after ive opened mozilla and a few other programs

[GrayCalx]

Wow, I had no idea it was such a memory hog. I'm pretty sure I just have 128. Possibly 256.

Is 128 pretty pathetic if thats what I have? Should I up it?

[fbs1992]

it also depends on what pakkages youve installed. i just installed everything to simplify everything, if thats whay you did then youll definately need at 512mb of ram.

i think im gonna reinstall it and only install what i need so it will wont take as much to run

[linoleum]

Some of that 700 is cache and stuff. To paraphrase what I heard somewhere else "Unused RAM is wasted RAM". So no matter how much RAM you have, it's always going to try to use everything for something. I think.


(Nice car too. Wish I had $40k )

[Nick_B]

Originally posted by linoleum
Some of that 700 is cache and stuff. To paraphrase what I heard somewhere else "Unused RAM is wasted RAM". So no matter how much RAM you have, it's always going to try to use everything for something. I think.

You have the right idea.

As for needing 512 megs--you'd need a LOT of extra crap installed that you don't need. Even bloating the install to install everything shouldn't slow it this much.

Most of my machines have 256 megs. I've run plenty on 128 with no problems, though.