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Originally posted by Ganesh Kamat I have installed Linux 8.0 on pentium 3 with 256 MB of RAM
Linux 8.0 needs a lot more then a pentium 3 with 256 MB.
Last week I went to the future and I've seen Linux 7.6 running on a pentium 54 with +/- 6 TB RAM, but there are patches available for very low memory usage (< 50GB RAM) and ancient CPU's (aything older then a P20), so theoreticly speaking, it's possible to run it on a P3
Try running 'top' from a terminal window (or gtop or another graphical version, if you have one) to see what's eating up the CPU.
100% CPU utilization isn't really too much to worry about - thanks to the way Linux manages processes, everything has a priority, so it's quite easy to have something using 100% of the CPU, but not affecting performance in any way. It's all about priority. Sometimes things will run on their own (filesystem management and stuff) while you're not doing anything else. As long as your computer is on, it might as well be doing stuff, right?
However, if it's actually affecting performance, then it may be something worth looking into.
ok, i dont understand why people post and then completely ignore the responses. You posted complaining about 100% cpu usage and what you should do. Within 10 minutes you had a reply instructing you to post a ps.
Your pc should NOT be running 100% 24/7. at idle my pc is at 0%, 100% is for when you are compiling, cruching, gaming, etc. Not just when idling.
Originally posted by iceman47 Linux 8.0 needs a lot more then a pentium 3 with 256 MB.
Last week I went to the future and I've seen Linux 7.6 running on a pentium 54 with +/- 6 TB RAM, but there are patches available for very low memory usage (< 50GB RAM) and ancient CPU's (aything older then a P20), so theoreticly speaking, it's possible to run it on a P3
Hey man, thanks for that, I aint laughed so much for weeks
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