On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Andrew Forgue wrote: > I just installed debian on an Alpha Personal Workstation 500a (not u) > using the SRM console. And Every seems to be really slow. The windows > in kde, gnome, or anywhere seem to take 4 or 5 seconds to completly > refresh... Would I get any performance benefit out of compiling my own kernel > and recompiling X from Source for this specific platform? > > Throw anything you have at me.. Im not a newbie to linux or anything :-)
You may get some benefit from a custom kernel. As far as X goes, though, it's pretty pokey in general on 64-bit platforms (I've got two of them)...especially KDE and GNOME. How much RAM do you have in your machine? C
