This might not be what you'd want to hear, but I've found upgrading to Fedora will increase your application and OS response times considerably. I think someone else posted this experience as well in the last week or so.
Jonathan Hassell -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James McDermott Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [TriLUG] My slow linux machine Hello, This is my 1st ever post and I am a newbe. I am running RedHat 9 on a Micron Millennia Mme box that has a 233 Mhz procesor, 256 MB RAM (Max Allowed), and an IBM 6.4 GB Ultra DMA /33 IDE hard drive. The machine only has linux installed (no windows, no dual boot). When I start an application, it takes considerable time to load the application. Mozilla(1.2.1) takes about 8 seconds, GIMP(1.2.5) takes about 15 seconds, OpenOfficeWriter takes about 25 seconds. The system monitor is showing that memory is using about 246MB out of 250MB and swap is using 29MB out of 510MB. I do see where my CPU utilization goes to 100% while an application is being started or while it is shutting down. After Mozilla, OpenOffice writer, GIMP etc. are open, the response times are not fast, but if you have some patience, the response times are marginally acceptable. I can have many applications open and not exceed my available RAM or use any significant SWAP. I think that my problem is that I am a slow linux machine because I am CPU bound? What is the recommended CPU speed to get decent performance? I would like to see OpenOffice come up in less than about 5 seconds. Thanks, Jim McDermott -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
