Sounds about right for my PII 233, I think mine starts a little faster
(5-6 secs?). I have 96Mb of RAM but Linux runs with 64 since I'm running
NT in a vm.
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> 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
>
