Toby Thain wrote: > > > Andrew Forgue wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > 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? > > Hi Andrew > > Having enough RAM is key - on Alpha that seems to mean >>128MB. Kernel > 2.4.14 also did a lot to improve responsiveness and KDE GUI on my > Alphaserver 1000A 5/300 (RH7.1, 128MB). XFree86 4.1 seems to be quicker > than the default install, on my Tseng ET-6000 card. > > regards > Toby >
I'll second that! I recently upgraded from 64 Megs to 256 Megs of memory and the improvement was quite dramatic! I have never seen such an improvement with a memory upgrade before on other computers. It went from being almost un-usable with KDE to being quite decent! BTW, I was getting a LOT of Hard Disk access with the lower memory and KDE. Mozilla just wouldn't start from within KDE (I quit waiting after 2-3 minutes). Surprisingly, GNOME ran somwhat acceptably with only 64 Megs. Cheers, -Don Spoon-
