--- "W. Keegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've since recompiled the kernel and while it's much smaller and I > "think" its faster then before it's not at par with the 486-33. I told you :) > The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about the 486- > 100 (Alice) machine it's only got 20mb of ram. That's a problem. RAM is essential for good performance. Give it a bit more. > As far as swap space Carol has a swap partition but Alice has a swap file on > the single partition, Corel didn't ask at install. So change it manually. A swap file is worse than a dedicated partition. > Top tells me I'm 26M into Alice's swap file as I write this. 8-O no wonder it's slow... > As for the desktop I'm running WindowMaker without Gnome on Alice and the > 33Mhz Carol runs FVWM2. I dumped WindowMaker for Sawmill on my PPC box with 48M RAM because it was too slow... The short story is: If your system hits swap heavily, it's _dead_. Michel ===== "Software is like sex; it's better when it's free" -- Linus Torvalds "If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable." -- Windows 95 BSOD __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
