At 01:38 PM 2/6/00 -0800, you wrote:
>I had a succesfull installation of Mandrake 6.0 but
>KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each
>screen, the mouse moves very slow (jumps)and all these
>symptoms act like there is a huge processing queue (my
>HD is kranking all the time).
That's damned odd.
>I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap
>area.
Oh, that explains everything.
P133/16MB RAM
^ ^
| |
| `-- You intend to run a GUI with this?! Stick to the command prompt
until
| you've got at least 32. :-)
`------ Ouch. That places your machine squarely in the "desktop calculator"
bracket in the CPU pecking order. Try something with a bit more
zip to it. 350MHz is probably a good starting place.
Take your spending cash for the month, but 48 megs of simms with it, and blow
the rest on the fastest AMD chip you can. (AMD, because you'll get a
slightly faster AMD chip than you will an Intel chip for the same price,
and whereas you can get a conceptually-even-faster Cyrix chip, Cyrix
generally sucks the bag, especially on fpu performance, but also on string
and integer ops.)
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