Hi,
it looks like I am having some performance problems, in particular
with emacs. I'm running mandrake 6.1 on PII-266, with 64 Mb RAM - not
leading edge but pretty decent. However, some of the apps are slow; in
particular, emacs takes about 8 secs to start - 1 second more than MS
Word on the same machine (tried just to check). Is this normal? I
believe it used to be better, but I can be mistaken. Can anyone with
similar hardware tell me his experience?
It doesn't seem to be related to X or window managers -even after
telinit 3; emacs takes about the same time. Memory/CPU indicators
(under Gnome) show memory 95% full, no swapping; CPU usage jumps
to 20% first second after issuing 'emacs' command, then drops down to
zero for the next 3-4 secs, then jumps to 100% and after this emacs
finally emerges.
For comparison: on my office machine (Pentium 450Mhz, 128 meg RAM,
RH6.0) emacs starts in under one second.
Any hints will be appreciated.
Sasha
