The truth is out there ... Mozilla and Open Office are hogs and take a long time to open. Someone else can explain about the inferior response time of X-Windows compared to the Winbloze architecture which has a faster user response because the GUI is located in kernel space, which also explains why it crashes so much.
I found a significant performance increase by optimizing disk transfers with hdparm. I recently recompiled and found an option in the makefile for my motherboard's chipset. Now that it is using DMA, disk tranfers have quadrupled and the load time for apps like Mozilla have plumeted. Be careful in the search for truth; maybe you should have gotten a Mac ... Fred On 12 Jun 2003, Eric Robinson wrote: > Like agent Mulder, I also have something in which I want to believe. > Mulder's hope was to find the truth about aliens. Mine to to make my > Linux desktop feel fast. > > I am composing this message using Ximian Evolution on a Dell GX260, > 2.4GHz, 256MB RAM, running Red Hat 9. The computer never really feels > fast, and at other times it is downright doggedly slow. > > To my right sits my venerable Dell GX150, 1GHz, 256MB RAM, running > Windows 2000 professional. Until last week, it was my primary desktop. > With much excitement, I replaced it with this Red Hat machine. > > I could hardly have been more disappointed with the result. My Linux > machine acts like arbitrary timers and wait states have been inserted > all over the place. If I get a couple of windows open, I can plan to > wait 2-15 seconds for almost anything I do. Some comparisons: > > Launch Mozilla: 26 seconds. > Launch Evolution: 15 seconds. > Start New E-mail Message: 2.25 seconds. > Launch Open Office Write: 21 seconds. > Launch Gnome Terminal: 6 seconds. > Launch Gnome Edit: 2 seconds. > Launch Ethereal Gnome: 3.25 seconds. > > Compare this to similar operations on my less powerful Win2K desktop: > > Launch IE6: 4 seconds. > Launch Outlook 2000: 8 seconds. > Start New E-mail Message: 0.25 seconds. > Launch MS Word: 4.5 seconds. > Launch command shell: 0.5 seconds. > Launch notepad or wordpad: 0.5 seconds. > Launch Ethereal: 3 seconds. > > Meanwhile, Linux top indicates 99% idle CPU, with about half my RAM and > 25% of my swap utilized. Go figure. > > What is making my Linux experience so slow? What can I do to fix it? > > I want to believe. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
