On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:32 +1300, Don Gould wrote: > Performance of Ximian is very slow after the machine has been in screen > saver mode. > > Mozilla gets slower and slower to the point that I have to kill the > process and run it again. > > Graphics seem ok (thou all I'm doing is surfing and email on this > machine). > > OpenOffice just isn't worth the time of day to open. > > I suspect the major issue is the disk and swap file. I've got Windows > on the first pat followed by swap and linux (I think). Some times the > machine just goes off and thinks for a while and I'm left to be > entertained by the flashing disk light.
well these days thats a really low spec machine, you need principally more RAM. Double it and you will notice a difference. > > Cheers Don > > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:24, Don Gould wrote: > > Thanks Nick, > > > > It's my Sony VAIO laptop (128mb, 400mhz, p3, 8gb) > > > > I was wondering if there were any wizzie apps that you can run that look > > at your hardware and configuration then make recommendations (I know > > there are plenty of these for Windows). > > > > Thanks for your suggestions and recommendations. I have also been > > looking at some performance tuning stuff at > > www.faqs.org/docs/securing/gen-optim.html which seems to be useful. > > > > Cheers Don > > > > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 12:07, Nick Rout wrote: > > > More RAM? > > > > > > Actually your question is pretty hard to answer, we don't know what > > > areas of performance you think are below par. It would also help to know > > > about your hardware. Therefore the following os pretty generalised. > > > > > > You should minimise the number of services operating - most of them will > > > not be needed on a home LAN. They all take up ram and cpu cycles. > > > > > > You could try running a less power crazed desktop - mandrake's default > > > is kde, I am liking XFCE4, icewm is very accessible to windows people (a > > > similar interface). Fluxbox is very light but more learning required. > > > WindowMaker is good but ditto on learning curve. > > > > > > If video performance is lacking, make sure you have the very best > > > drivers for your card, eg if its an nvidia go for the proprietary > > > nvidia drivers. > > > > > > Mandrake is compiled for the 586 architecture IIRC. You could recompile > > > the entire distro for your architecture [1], but it probably isn't worth > > > the effort. > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] I read an online article about how to do this for redhat once,was > > > written by a kiwi too. mandrake would be similar as it has very similar > > > structure and is rpm based. Basically it comes down to setting up custom > > > RPM compiler settings, and rebuilding from source rpms. Actually if you > > > wanted to take that approach gentoo probably makes it easier. > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:06:38 +1300 > > > Don Gould wrote: > > > > > > > Are there any tools for improving performance? > > > > > > > > I've done a google but couldn't find much in the way of useful links. > > > > > > > > Any recommendations? > > > > > > > > Cheers Don > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
