I have two Linux boxes on my network here at home. Both are P2-400's
and the only real difference is RAM. One machine has 256 MG the other
128. But they both run pretty damn fast!
Now there are somethings that I've noticed, heard, and/or experimented
with, and that's separate hard drives for certain mount points. I've
found that if you mount /home to a second hard drive, programs will pop
up and run faster since it's accessing another drive and it doesn't have
all your personal stuff running on it at the same time.
Now for me... that's not a problem. I have hard drives that I don't
even have in use. And each of my machines has an average of 42 GB of HD
space. Right now the machine I'm on right now, was installed as a
Development server, and I have a separate partition for /home and I've
noticed that even that runs faster and smoother then just mounting / and
Linux swap.
I also have a friend who was running a machine with a P2-200 over
clocked to a P2-333 and it ran with no problem. The old SCSI drives in
there slowed things down a little bit but the machine was still pretty
fast!
That's something I love about Linux. You can install it on a 486 or
bastard 586 and it will run circles around Windows on a better machine!
I'm not sure what process you have running, or what's started on your
machine when you boot that you're noticing this sluggish behavior. Try
using ntsysv to find out what's running and disable things that aren't
being used. If you're not using any USB ports, disable them, if you're
not using the webserver, disable httpd. Things like that. For example,
this is a top off my machine, and look at how many instances run for the
webserver alone.
113 processes: 112 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1.3% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 97.4% idle
Mem: 261712K av, 255900K used, 5812K free, 0K shrd, 85940K
buff
Swap: 530104K av, 0K used, 530104K free 64536K
cached
=======================================================================
816 root 0 0 2512 2512 2372 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd-perl
819 apache 0 0 2588 2588 2440 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd-perl
820 apache 0 0 2588 2588 2440 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd-perl
821 apache 0 0 2588 2588 2440 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd-perl
822 apache 0 0 2588 2588 2440 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd-perl
961 root 0 0 2484 2484 2428 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd
964 root 0 0 2480 2480 2416 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd
965 apache 0 0 2708 2708 2472 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 httpd
966 apache 0 0 2680 2680 2472 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 httpd
967 apache 0 0 2680 2680 2472 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 httpd
968 apache 0 0 2680 2680 2472 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 httpd
969 apache 0 0 2592 2592 2440 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd
970 apache 0 0 2592 2592 2440 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd
971 apache 0 0 2592 2592 2440 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd
972 apache 0 0 2592 2592 2440 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd
973 apache 0 0 2592 2592 2440 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd
974 apache 0 0 2680 2680 2472 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 httpd
Something like that might give you some processor to breath with, but
honestly, I'm not sure why you're having any problems at all.
Well there's my "$0.02" hope you can make change! :0)~
tdh
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* Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010216 14:21]:
> Just wondering, without spendning a fortune what would be the ideal platform
> for running LM 7.2 (KDE/GNOME)?
>
> I ask this because I'm running 7.2 on a K6-200/128MB and on a P400/256MB and
> they are both sluggish. How much machine to I need to run a typical
> installation of 7.2, I was planning on upgrading my CPU to a 500 but I'm not
> sure if it is increasing the proc will be as effective as increasing the
> memory. In the task window X was using up 17K (I guess memory) is that
> about right?
