The program i was trying to run were karchiver and star office. I checked to see
what was running with (ps aux) and apparently there was a whole lot of things
running. Most of which I have no idea what they are for. I also check to see how
full the file system is, it was about 70 percent. After doing these two things I
remembered that when i installed caldera I choose workstation and server packages,
I think this may be why there where so many services running. I reinstalled
caldera with just the home workstation package (to free up some space) and things
are running a little faster, not much. I then ran free to see what it showed:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 63104 60272 2832 34276 19368 10524
-/+ buffers/cache: 30380 32724
Swap: 0 0 0
If i am reading this right my swap file is not working, right. According to
Partition Magic there is a swap file. Any suggestions on how to fix this.
If this is not enough info please email me for more.
TIA
dan
Richard Adams wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, 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
>
> It depends on what programs you are loading and how long they take,
> ages is not an option here when explaining a problem.
>
> Do you have an active swap partition check with free, if in doubt
> send the output of 'free' with you next mail, and please define slow
> as in seconds, and say which program you are loading.
>
> Sloow problems may not always be memory or speed related, things like
> hostname resolution can cause painfull delays in starting some
> daemons/programs.
>
> >
> > -
>
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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