add more ram.. in cases with 64MB and below, swapping to disk more then you have available memory really causes severe performance problems esp in a GUI enviornment regaurdless of OS. and/or get another physical hdd to swap to. or, run it off of NFS and run the swap from local disk. with a decent NIC you may see comparable results over NFS as you do from one of those reallllllly slow IDE drives, but with the added benefit that the hdd is used only for swap.
and i'd suggest going to fvwm (or even twm *shiver*) to reduce memory usage even further. nate On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, W. Keegan wrote: billk > billk >> I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram, >1G hd, billk >> networked with three other PCs. This workstation is 5X slower then a billk >> 486-33 running RH 5.0 acting as a gateway, Samba server, mail, etc. I billk >> welcome any suggestions towards finding what must be a gross billk >> misconfiguration. billk > billk >I've since recompiled the kernel and while it's much smaller and I billk >"think" its faster then before it's not at par with the 486-33. billk > billk >The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about the 486- billk >100 (Alice) machine it's only got 20mb of ram. Alice has a Cirrus billk >Logic GD54xx series PCI card with 1mb ram. Both systems use billk >the svga xserver. As far as swap space Carol has a swap partition billk >but Alice has a swap file on the single partition, Corel didn't ask at billk >install. Top tells me I'm 26M into Alice's swap file as I write this. billk > billk >As for the desktop I'm running WindowMaker without Gnome on billk >Alice and the 33Mhz Carol runs FVWM2. billk > billk >Your advice is appreciated and any other suggestions are welcome. billk > billk >bill billk > billk >PS Hawk the bios has the cache enabled and set to write-back. billk > billk > billk > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:40am up 159 days, 21:47, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 1.04, 1.03