On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Pat Bradshaw wrote:
> anything not requiring x windows is quite good, but anytime I try to run
> anything with a gui, the machine just crawls along, and I hear the hard
> disk thrashing like crazy. This isn't just bad I'm talking about here, its
> completely unusable. Staroffice takes 5+ minutes just to launch. With KDE
> performance is slow but acceptable. With GNOME - forget it.
These applications are memory pigs.
> I know that the best answer is to stick a crowbar in my wallet and add
> RAM, but are there other parameters that might significantly affect
> performance that I could tweak to make performance at least bearable?
No. Go buy some RAM.
Er, let me say that another way. You might be able to tweak a few things
and get a slight performance boost, but in the end it will not be enough
to justify spending the time to do it -- it might be measurable but will
be unlikely to be perceptible by you. You shouldn't even consider running
Gnome or KDE with less than 64MB of RAM. And forget SO completely.
Your system performance is bad because you are constantly swapping memory
to and from disk. The only way to fix that is to add more RAM.
If you don't want to buy more RAM, try switching to FVWM or Afterstep,
which are both very serviceable window managers, and don't require
anywhere near the amount of system resources as KDE or Gnome. That may
help. But you still won't have an easy time of running SO.
--
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?"
-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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