On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:13 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 04:38, Richard B. Thibaudeau wrote: > > Dear Sir / Madam. > > > > I'm using Mandrake-Linux PowerPack 9.0, with kernel 2.4.19-16mdk. > > It is very buggy, slow, etc. A week after a fresh installation, it > > generates about 50,000 files with zero bytes. I use it on a PI-233 with > > 114 Mb memory. > > I have downloaded Patch-2.4.20.bz2 at 4Mb. I have expanded that file to > > 22Mb. > > The documentation I read so far does not tell me what to do next. > > Make xconfig, make config or make menuconfig do not work. > > Thank you for your help. > > > > Richard Thibaudeau > > G'day Richard, > Question - were you directed to download the patch for any particular > reason? Why I ask is that patching and recompiling the kernel ain't for > the feint of heart, mate - unless you're ready and willing to cause > yourself a few headaches here and there. > > Patching the kernel doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to > optimise your system or get better performance out of it - truly. If > you're feeling that system speed is lagging and strange things are > happening, you might want to start out with looking at the system > overall and seeing where and what you can tweak and tune in order to get > rid of those zero byte files (are they core dumps perchance?) as well as > streamlining some things and tweaking your hard drive settings to get > more bang for your buck...
We can help if you tell us what you mean by 'buggy'. What does not work? What files are being created? What do you mean by slow? If you are running KDE on a 233MHz Pentium, then Yes it will be slow. KDE is similar to Windows XP. You could not run XP on that machine either. On a low end machine you will have a much better experience running a lightweight Window Manager such as :- Icewm - Similar to Win95 WindowManager- Not very Windows like at all. Enlightenment - Good if you like garish themes (not my favourite) Blackbox or Fluxbox - So minimal they confuse Windows users (but my favourite) You will also find there are lightweight applications that work just as well as the more 'bloated' applications but faster. Experiment. There are thousand of apps on your CDs. If you ask we can recommend apps to you. -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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