On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Raul Beltran wrote:
>
> Hello, I have been using redhat 5.2 and i've found it to get slow when
> I run about 5 apps at the same time. Specifically, I run first x11amp,
> that works great, then I start, say 2 kwrite editors, an xterm to
> compile, and everything goes OK, but if i run another app, the x11amp
> gets jumpy... I think that shouldnt happen. I'd like to know if it
> will be the same history under SuSE... or maybe a kernel upgrade will
> help?
>
> I have an AMD-K6 300 Mhz, 64M Ram, SB AWE64, kernel 2.0.36, running
> WindowMaker
I have run both Red Hat and SuSE and I have not noticed any speed
performance difference between them.
The problem you are having suggests that you are running out of RAM
and your box is having to go to swap. Open 'top' in an xterm and watch
what happens as you open applications.
An alternative suggestion is to try another wm such as fvwm to see if
performance changes.
Finally, there is nothing like a fresh boot of your box to make sure
you don't have something happening on it that you don't know about
that could be degrading performance.
Dwight
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