I think also that 32 MB is a little.
We were running on 40MB and now on 64MB and it is big different.
Andy
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Od: Matthew E. Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Odesl�no: 3. srpna 2000 17:12
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P�edm�t: Re: [Cooker] How to speedup Mandrake for general desktop use?
LINK WORLD wrote:
> Dear Cooker,
>
> I have now come to the stage where I wish to commercially (yet freely)
bundle Mandrake Linux on systems that I sell. However
> I find Mandrake (as well as Suse, Red Hat, Corel, Turbo, Storm and more)
very slow. I have settled on Mandrake due to its
> extremely stable nature (no hanging & system malfunction in over 40 days
of use). The systems that I wish to sell are
> presently Cyrix 333 Mhz, 512K Cache, 32MB Ram, 4.2GB Hard Disk & AT25 VGA
card, CD rom without sound card, for typical office
> use.
>
> Yet the systems are slooooooow. I have tried 'hdparm', removed daemons and
other startups I dont need, increased swap size,
> removed unwanted installed rpm's, but its of no use. The same systems
function excellently (as far as speed goes) on
> Windows-95. Star office takes aeons to load, and if I try development
tools like AnyJ, then the system almost stops.
>
Star Office is a hog- on any OS. A fact that I think Sun is even admitting
due to the plans to break up the components of the
system with version 6.0 (somebody correct me I am wrong). As far as AnyJ or
any Java-written program, use IBM JDK/JRE 1.3 and
dump the others. IBM's Java is so blazingly fast (for Java at least). In
the August 200 LinuxJournal, there is an article
about Java implementations on Linux. The author apparently had little time
to put IBM JRE 1.3 through the same tests; however,
he provided a small statistic that showed it to be 2-3 times faster than
other Linux Java implementations. Yet, still only
70-75% the speed on C++.
-matthew porter
>
> I have been under the impression that linux is not as demanding on
resources as Windows, MS-Office & Visual Studio. Where
> have I gone wrong?
>
> Please help. As a Windows user I have come to love & appreciate Linux, but
I am now at my wits end. If I need to spend more
> on hardware like memory & SCSI drives then a large part of the desire to
switch to Linux (at least on the Desktop) will be
> negated.
>
> A happy but frustrated user,
> Sunil Gupta
> Link World.
