[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Derek, there is swap... I run "swapon -s" and it gave me exactly the > picture you mentioned, except that swap is hda6, and the size is > 979924 - which I think is close to 1 GB... However, the problem is > that "used" part is zero - why's that? Can I do something to make > linux use it? Computer is freshly restarted, so may be it is only > that there is nothing yet in memory to dump it to swap? > > Filename Type Size Used Priority > /dev/hda6 partition 979924 0 -1
I'd have to say that's the case. You've got tons of swap space, and it's turned on, so my guess is obviously wrong :-) > However, once Gnome or particularly KDE is started, then it just > turns into hell - even Abiword starts somehow two-three times > slower than MSWord starts in Windows... Evolution starts in > probably 10 seconds... may be it is because those desktop > environments and programs are slow themselves and it does not have > to do anything with Debian.. I am a user primarily, so I noticed I wouldn't know, since I use neither of them, but I have noted Linux word-processing programs tend to be annoyingly slow to start. KWord sucks too :-( But otherwise, I have always found performance to be improved over any of the Windows variants. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
