Philipp Schröder wrote:
P.S.: Unfortunately, Ubuntu is running *dead slow* on the Thinkpad 600,
even though I have 294 MB of RAM (= the maximum for TP 600) !? I don't
know what is wrong. I suspect the harddisk (5.1 GB, 4200 rpm) might be
slowing things down? But it's really going at "crawl" speed. :-( So I
was hoping I could at least use it as thin client...
I'm running Ubuntu on some seriously under-spec'ed (desktop) systems[*],
and the only time I've seen serious performance degradation is when the
machines begins swapping. Given that you've got loads of RAM - more than
most of the clients I run, heck more than our server here(!) - I suspect
that:
- You might have a disk on the verge of death, requiring many attempts
for each read/write.
- Your RAM is not all working, reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
[*] FYI, I'm composing this message on a PIII 450 w/ 256 MB RAM, and
everything is running just fine.
A few links that might provide some better assistance than wild
speculation on my part:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki - wiki for Linux on ThinkPads
http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm - Another page for
ThinkPads running Debian
Oh, and hello to everyone from the sunny South Pacific island nation of
Vanuatu. Frist Psot! 8^)
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