"I have... noticed most of you haves systems with 300 to 400 mhz processors."
?!
Don't know how you "noticed" that. (And I can't wait to see Lawson's
reaction!) I run here everything from a Celeron 433 on down to a 486/33. My
everyday system is a P166 with 96 megs of RAM.
You need to look at some diagnostics to see what's going on in detail, but
probably what is happening is that you are running stuff in the background
that eats up memory &/or CPU time. Use the following programs to see what
you are running now:
ps aux (what uses the most memory?)
free (look at the +/- cache/buffers line; and are you using swap?)
top (which are the most demanding processes?)
df (how full are your filesystems?)
If you are running X, consider running a "lighter" Window Manager. Some use
a lot of RAM. I run "blackbox" here, one of the less well-known WMs.
Give us some indication of what programs you are seeing take "forever" to
load. If Netscape, for example, takes a long time, that's not surprising --
it's a resource hog and the startup routines don't seem to be very well
written. If, on the other hand, vi or lynx is taking "forever" to start,
that indicates a real configuration problem.
At 01:32 PM 2/8/00 -0600, Dan wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>I have been a member of this list for a couple of weeks now and have noticed
>most of you haves systems with 300 to 400 mhz processors. I have caldera 2.3
>installed with 64 megs of ram, 1.5 gig hard drive, and 150 mhz processor.
>Linux seems to be running real slow. When I try to load a program it takes
>forever to load. Is there any way to speed linux up a little, like a
>configuration to linux, I would make system upgrade but I am using a laptop.
>Even my winduz (NT) with the same setup and computer runs faster.
>TIA
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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