On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Muzi wrote:
> my #1 message here :)
>
> hi all,
>
> i'm trying to get confidence with linux. after the third installation
(had
> problems with the swap
> partition) i think it's okay now and ready to get on the internet via
modem and
> phone line.
> i'm using redhat 6.0 with gnome, so after a while spent searching i
found how
> to configure a ppp
> connection in the linuxconf. i tried logging in and everything looks
work fine,
> except that
> connection hangs off after a little time, just some seconds. as gnome
provides
> a graphic interface
> to linuxconf, i found easily how to modify a script. the script
provided
> expects and sends my login
> and password, then expects "TIMEOUT", sends "5" and expect "~--". i
tried
> removing these three
> things but with no success. what should i do to fix it? remember i'm
totally
> new to linux so some
> refers to gnome interface would be great.
>
I don't do GUI. Sorry :-). Have a nice ling read of man chat before
you rip out TIMEOUT. TIMEOUT and ABORT are keywords to chat, they are
not part of its send and expect sequence. TIMEOUT 5 tells it not to
wait more than 5 seconds for anything it is expecting. -- tells it if
it doesn't get what it was expecting, to send a carriage return and
expect the next operand, which normally is a the same one, but gives the
other side a poke and another shot at it.
>
> another and more general question. my system appears to be sloooooow. i
run
> linux on a cyrix 200 MHz
> with mmx, 32 Megs of ram. the hard disk where i installed linux (500
Megs) is
> already full and
If it is really, seriously full, that is the cause of the slowness.
Depending somewhat on the hardware, IDE hd IO is shockingly CPU
intensive, and the CPU cycles get burned in an interrupt handler where
they preempt other CPU activity. Almost any program you care to run is
going to want a bit of disk space for something, and if the system has
to look all over the filesystem to find one more 1kb block, that is
going to clog everything up horribly. You really don't want a
filesystem to be more than 90% full.
> there's a 64 Megs swap partition. boot runs about as fast as win95's
one (and
> this doesn't sound so
> good :)), but the environment looks instable. sometimes it hangs for
minutes
> while the hard disk
> keeps working and all i can do is to hard-reboot the machine (!). i
know my
> system isn't so powerful
> but win95 runs even faster with lots of huge apps installed (like
office,
> delphi, c++ builder,
> visual basic, communicator....) while gnome forces me to wait even to
start a
> terminal...
> i disabled many startups features (like network and others i don't
need) and
> some enlightment ones
> (likes sounds) but performances don't better appreciately... what is
the
> solution? someone suggested
> me that another window manager would help, but i don't want to spend
time
> trying many of them. i
> thought i could try kde but actually i don't have space enough to
install the
> rpm's :))
>
>
> thanx in advance :)
>
Lawson
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