On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:39:14PM -0700, 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.
Eric, I'll bet you are running the default Window Manager: Bluecurve. Ugg. Doesn't matter if you use the KDE or Gnome version, that thing is a dog. Look into some lighter Windowmanagers, such as Black/fluxbox, Windowmaker, FVWM2, or even metacity. They aren't as "friendly" as KDE or Gnome, but they'll make all the difference in the world. KDE and Gnome are more "Desktop environments", and run a bunch of services in the background that eat up resources. Another reply said that you should think about more memory. If you are going to keep using Bluecurve, you should double your memory. The machine is digging into swap, which is a sign that you are over committing the amount of resources your machine has. Adding more memory, at least 512MB, will cause a drastic change. Swapping == overcommit == magnitude 2 performance hit. Your numbers show this too. Memory runs in the nanoseconds, swap disk runs in the milliseconds. Mark -- | Mark C. Ballew \Revolution is | Graduate Student, University of Nevada, Reno \not | RAWUG President: http://rawug.org \an AOL | Homepage: http://sublinear.net \Keyword _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
