It seems odd that 21MB of swap is being used. Anytime you
go out to swap for something it's a few orders of magnitude
performance reduction.
My suspicion is that for the stuff you're trying to run, you
need more memory. If you can't get more, or don't want to
buy more, try turning off as much as possible, changing
window managers to something simpler than gnome or kde, and
tuning down your disk caching some. Also, remove everything
yuou can from your kernel build.
Regards!
Steve
simon benson wrote:
>
> Hullo all,
>
> Having recently installed a linux os on a sony pcg f400, i have noticed
> that the system seems very slow. indeed, it seems to thrash the hell out
> of the hard drive when performing fairly common tasks - one notable
> example is loading Netscape.
>
> Could this be to do with the amount of mem allocated to it in the
> installation process?
>
> here are a list of details.
>
> processor: P466
> 64 ram
> 6.0 gig h/d
>
> Within Linux:
>
> Mem:62960k av 55272k used (7688k free) 24044k shrd 13112K buff
> Swap: 65532k av, 21352k used, 44180k free
> 18256kcached
>
> ***********
>
> Not sure if this is what you need but it all came from the "top" command
> from within Konsole.
>
> Any advice would be very very much appreciated as it is driving (geddit)
> me mad.
>
> Thanx,
>
> Si.
>
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