I had a Cyrix PR120 (100Mhz) with 24Mb RAM and 80 Mb swap running Mandrake 5.3
and KDE. Altough it wasn't lightning fast, it delivered decent performance and
I was happy with it. Of course that when there were some 5 Netscape windows
open, the machine started to run slower due to swaping ( both KDE and Netscape
are memory hogs). Maybe if you expand your swap partition or, better yet, add
some more RAM, you'll get more speed. You can also try using another Windows
Manager like XFCE. But even with 16Mb of RAM, I think you should not
experience that sluggish performance you describe. Check if there are other CPU
intensive tasks running while you work (press CTRL F2 and type kpm, and see
which program is the most CPU hungry).
El dom, 06 feb 2000, escribiste:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Cristi Andronic 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).
> > I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap
> > area.
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