-> I have Debian 2.1 running on a P-133 with 32MB of RAM and a 6.4GB Western -> Digital IDE, but it is awful slow when I have a lot of stuff running, -> including a few Netscape Communicator web browsers. Specifically, it -> likes to keep me waiting while it stops and runs the hard disk in the -> middle of a program, or sometimes when I switch to a virtual console that -> has been idle for a while.
-> total used free shared buffers cached -> Swap: 128484 32196 96288 ^^^^^ This says you should have _at least_ 32 mb more. As long as you are going to play with staroffice, buy even more, you should have 96 or 128 megs then -> 1. Am I barking up the wrong tree with the idea of a RAM upgrade? -> 2. Is it a bad idea to buy RAM for a P-133 since it only takes 72-pin? -> Instead, should I upgrade to a motherboard that can handle a newer -> type of RAM? not needed. -> 4. Is there something else I should upgrade? you can upgrade anything, disk, CPU, mainboard i'd prefer upgrading this way: 1. memory 2. CPU 3. adding another HDD for much user filesystems - swap, tmp, var preferrably on another controller. The new drive can be just around 1.6GB, the speed is important imo -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz WinError #99999: Out of error messages.