Others may disagree, but I think that GUI's are memory-intensive,
CPU-burning hogs. I can barely stand to run Gnome on the old 486 we have
here. I wouldn't expect big performance differences between Windows and
X. Anyway, I don't know about 1.0.54 but I thought Gnome liked 64MB RAM so
less would slow things as it swaps. Perhaps a better question is how to
tune things for performance. One place to start is a "small footprint"
windows manager. You're also supposed to get about 12% more speed if you
use binaries compiled for the Pentium. I believe both of these have been
discussed on this list in the past.
Is the system consistently slow? The other problem that occurs for many is
that Netscape will wig try to consume all the system resources. Having top
running in a terminal window will add a little overhead but it will show
you when this occurs. Just follow the on-screen directions to kill the
process and restart netscape.
-Alan
At 04:37 PM 5/2/00 , you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm running RH 6.1 from the box on a Pentium 100 (yeah I'm out of date)
>with 48 megs of ram and running Gnome 1.0.54 as the gui, KDE mail with
>version KDE 1.1.2. Is it normal for the system to be unusable while
>mail is being checked or while a url is being loaded? I can't switch
>desktops, delete mail or do anything while the mail is being checked or
>a page is loading. It has been my understanding that linux is better at
>managing programs, but things are not going well with this. Do I need
>to upgrade KDE or Gnome or Linux or is there some trick that I
>don't know about that will slowdown the bogging down of the system?
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