Polar Humenn, On Tuesday March 04, 2003 09:51, Polar Humenn wrote: > I updated from Slackware, because updating it was a pain. But now that I > have this RedHat 8.0 thing installed, my system is slower than a > two-legged tortoise. I've got a dual-pentium 800Mz with 512MB RAM. The KDE > used to fly under Slack. Now, what's happened? > > I also installed RH 8.0 on my Laptop, and now I'm ready to throw the thing > away. It's a DELL Inspiron 7000 350Mx 128MB RAM, and used to be my best > machine before I bought the Dual-P desktop. Also, now, X, seems to lock-up > sometimes when I close it (ala Microsoft). Underslack, the save-to-disk > worked fine if I left it in the bag long enough for the battery to where > down. No chance of that happening anymore, It just dies. > > Is there some RH configuration thingy I'm missing? Or just chaulk it up to > overloaded linuxes? > > I am running the SMP version of the lastest kernel. > It's sooooo slow. > Any clues?
Is it possible that DMA is not enabled for the hard disk(s)? That has been the most common thing I've seen cause speed problems. What does "hdparm -acd /dev/hda" return? Does "hdparm -t /dev/hda" show reasonable throughput? Other things to check... Does "free" show that all the memory is recognized properly? Are there any background tasks eating up CPU time? (anacron is a pain on desktops/laptops) Have you updated to all the latest packages? (If you don't want to use up2date, there is apt-rpm available (elsewhere) also) Does it look like all your hardware was indentified correctly? Hope it helps. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
