Hi,
X on Linux is slow, nothing to do about it except maybe upgrade to
XFree86-4.0. File access is slow, upgrade to Reiserfs (or test out the new
ext3 system)
Also your machine is probably running a host of things which you need
because you're seeing them for the first time like eg. Apache? (personally
I can't think of life without a personal webserver infront of me). Also
routed, YP. RedHat gives a help for each service. Read that and switch
them off if you don't need them.
But Linux does keep a huge cache, and partly on the swap (which too is on
a slow drive) so some things will be slow if you're using X. Try to use a
lighter windowmanager like windowmaker or xfce.
best wishes,
\Indraneel
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hello friends,
>
> I've installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 on my system, whose
> configuration is as under :
>
> Pentium 200 MHz with MMX
> 32 MB Ram
> Sis 6215C Display Adapter
> Intel i430VX motherboard
> 10.2 GB Hard Disk (Seagate)
> Creative's sound card
> Windows 98
> Red Hat Linux 6.2
>
> I've got a very strange problem. It seems that my system
> boots slowly into Linux, and XWindows performance is not very good.
> Everything works, but at a degraded speed. Even if I browse my hard disk
> using file manager, it scans the contents at a slow speed. When I start
> Netscape, it takes an awful lot of time to load itself. I don't know what
> wrong with my installation, since my system performance in windows good.
> The speed difference between windows and Linux is great.
>
> First I thought my swap drive space may not be optimum, so
> increased that to 128 MB, but even after that there was no performance
> boost. Then I read in June issue of PCQ, an article about "Fine Tuning your
> Linux Machine".
> I tried the following :
> "/sbin/hdparm -c1 /dev/hda" for 32-bit I/O
> "/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" for enabling DMA
>
> then checked the performance using "/sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/hda".
> The results were good. (The throughput increased, but not very much).
> I tried to make these settings permanent : "/sbin/hdparm -k1 /dev/hda"
> But when I rebooted my system, the settings were reset. Don't know why.
>
> It's is very annoying to work on a slow system, and I do
> not want to switch to windows as I like working in Linux. So please help me
> increase the performance of Linux. Also, what services should be started at
> boot time if I use my system as a standalone machine with networking
> enabled.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mohit Khanna
>
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