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Well, I managed to get my system close to its limits some weeks ago. Sharing some ten bittorrents at the same time while doing heavy graphical editing (200MB big mulit-layer files), having the webbroswer, email and instant messanger open and listening to music, my system started to choke a bit. 1 GB RAM was used up, almost 1,6 of my 2 GB swap partition were in use. Had to kill some bittorrents in order to get the system a bit more responsive again. That said: I don't think that the swap=2xRAM rule is out of place. But maybe I am just an old paranoid guy...

Did you read the installation manual? http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#rpm

If you run out of ram or if your ram fails for whatever reason, you have swap as a backup. Now imagine the systems ram failing and not having any swap. The system will freeze immediately and your work might be lost. Not a good idea imho.

Okay, the problem is a apparently nasty kernel-related one that - as it seems- already existed in older releases and is caused by using two different kinds of CD/DVD drives. Back then, a bug was submitted. Might be worth to check bugzilla again. ;) http://qa.mandriva.com check this thread: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=...371471c673b7b93

Can you tell us which errors it spits out? Maybe it only needs a simple parameter added for booting properly.

Check your RAM typing in a terminal free This will show you the RAM that you have in total, as well as buffered, used and cached RAM. And I second John. What you are shown must be the disk-space (used and unused), not RAM. If you want to free up space on the usb-drive, then burn some stuff that you don't need day in and day out to CD/DVD and remove old logfiles and such stuff.

Which sound-server you are using (OSS or ALSA) in Kcontrol? Furthermore, do you have any channels muted by accident? Run as root from a terminal "alsamixer" and check it.

I bet that the problem is caused by using two soundscards. You should disable harddrake in the Mandriva Control Center (MCC), which will check for new hardware at bootup and then reconfigure your soundcard with one of the graphical tools available or using the command line. If you have two soundcards in your system and harddrake enabled, it will always check the whole system for new hardware and reconfigure the system if it thinks that it's necessary.

AFAIK, they did not build a ONE-Gnome CD for release date.

In case that you use Gnome instead of KDE as your desktop, the trash can can be deactivated using the gconf-editor -> applications -> nautilus -> show trash icon.

Aha... that explains it. Will try the other method later. :)

The cli almost works, except that when I play the file, only the first of e.g. three parts works. After the first, there is an error on the format reported (I tried the command on three wmv files) Is there a way in Kino to adjust the play-speed of the video? When I import the videos, they are replayed with triple speed or so... :unsure: Haven't found the trick for that yet.

After flattening my cooker and installing the fresh 2008 I must admit that - apart from the default artwork - that this release is by far the best Mandriva release since Mandrake 10.1. Two thumbs from my side. Keep up the good work.

Just did some research and first and foremost, I was simply too stupid for using kino correctly. Heh... :mellow: It does work perfectly. And I found out that there are some nice alternatives apart from kdenlive like cinerella, ahshaka or avidemux, too. Geez... lots of new things to explore. :)

I have collected some small (1-3 MB), funny mpg-videos from all over the web and want make one single mpg video out of them (so I can show my brother all the ouches and hahas with one click rather than with 50 single clicks). Now, the question is: which software that is included in Mdv 2008 might be the best one for such a task? Kino is, I guess, too much/complicated and not designed primarily for editing mp3 files. Is there any little, funny gnome tool that can do this easy task with a few clicks? I am rather a noob when it comes to video editing.

My Mandriva 2008 box. B)

Well, all I can tell is that in Gnome, gedit works perfectly. As said: Start the apps from a terminal and check for error messages.

Bad CD-burn? ;)

As an addon:Adjust the usersetttings as root again, but don't forget to do it recursively. chown -R username:usergorup /home/username Hope it helps.

Nope Not really I don't use amarok. :P Huh? :huh: MHO: Don't turn off swap. I don't know what the guy did to his machine, but mines are not choking and are significantly faster and more stable than Windows XP. I turned of swap once and it was a huge annoyance once my system needed the swap space (and I do have 1 GB Ram!). Furthermore, I haven't noticed any significant differences when setting swappiness e.g. to 20 instead of 60. I always prefer stability over exterme speed. I cannot risk my system to go down at will. That said: Try the suggested things only on a secondary system/partition before considering to apply them to your main system.

Welcome aboard. :) It would be nice if you could tell us which type of harddrive you are using (SATA/PATA/other). And what do you mean exaclty with the "devices window"? Could you post a screenshot?

[off-topic]Yum ain't slow. :P When was the last time you tested it? Must be some years ago... [/off-topic] I don't see anything wrong in urpmi either. Actually, I prefer urpmi to a lot of other packaging tools. Just did a fresh reinstall of Mdv2008 and it seems that the nautilus-bug that hit me previously is gone now. My cooker must have been pretty borked.

ilia_kr, rest assured, fedora 8 will look very different to Mandriva 2008, if that is of any importance for you. (the look of a distro is not really that relevant imho.) On a more serious note: I had not encountered these problems but other probs with my cooker version. Perhaps, after nearly two years, my cooker partition needs a clean setup again... anyway: downloading 2008 now and going for a fresh install on my cooker partition.

Apart from eating my CPU it is doing absolutely nothing (except displaying my 3D-less desktop). If I kill nautilus as root from a tty and restart nautilus later, then the cpu-eating is gone. If I simply restart the X server, then two nautilus processes are running, each using some 45 percent of cpu power, thus I have to kill nautilus from tty if I want the system to act in a normal way. If I knew why nautilus would eat my cpu at irregular times, I'd let you know immediately but alas I have no idea what could be wrong. Back tracing doesn't reveal anything either... I guess I will retry with a clean install. Maybe the bug is caused by some bad packages I downloaded.

Hmm... maybe I am once again the one person that runs into problems with gnome. But honestly, adam: I have ran into annoying Gnome-bugs in Mdv2006 (nautilus burner buggy), 2007 (infrequent change of file-ownership), 2007.1 (gdm buggy) and now 2008 (nautilus eating all cpu infrequently; Gnome 2.20 desktop reacts slower compared to Gnome 2.16 and 2.18). I don't think that it is a problem with my hardware as I run fedora and debian testing on the same hardware and there I never ran into these problems (except the nautilus burner delay, but that well known bug was fixed in a few days in fedora). KDE has been very solid on my Mandriva test-systems, but I am a Gnomer (cannot help it) and not that I want to badmouth Mandriva, but 2008 still needs a bit of Gnome-polishing imho.