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On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:01, Jeffrey Clement wrote:
> would (ie. Apache, MySQL, Webmin, .....). Mandrake's slowness probably
> comes from the fact the system is swapping like crazy in order to run
> anything.
yes. a decently installed mandrake works very well on a 64MB system, but
poorly installed/configured and you end up with exactly what you describe:
swapping like a madman, even to the point of storming. not only does swapping
mean more hide drive hits, it means hitting the drive for every file it needs
to read in since there won't be many data cache pages under that sort of
memory pressure.
this is compounded by the fact that many low memory systems have older drives
as well which run slowly. this only makes the swapping more painful. tuning
with hdparm can help things quite a bit, but even then a 5400RPM drive is a
5400RPM drive.
on the other end of the scale, i just installed MDK9 on a new Sony VAIO; 1.6Gh
P4 w/256MB of RAM and a killer display... it installed without a single hitch
and BOY does it smoke. the person using it (a salesperson) commented on it
after having it for a few days and remarked that it not only looks nice, but
is fast and is quite user friendly. even things like installing a printer
were magic-easy with CUPs using the KDE3 Add Printer... wizard (easily
available in the KDE Print panel menu)
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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