On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:58:11PM -0500, Blais Klucznik wrote:
> Hi to the group.
>
> Although I have been reading the group messages for some time now this
> is my first message to the group.
>
> I wonder if anyone who may have tried a similar configuration of
> equipment as above has experienced a result similar to that of which I
> will describe when attempting to run X-Windows and Linuxconf in a
> terminal window?
>
> I have RedHat v6 and when in the Command mode the OS executes as fast
> as DOS does when I boot up in DOS. When I start X-Windows I find that
> X-Windows is quite a bit slower than Win95 on the same machine. Then,
> while in X-Windows, I switch to a terminal and try Linuxconf, Linuxconf
> is simply unusable.
>
What you're experiencing here is that X is taking a lot of system resources
and there just isn't much time for linuxconf to run _while_ X is. I've got
a couple of 486's here, but have never tried running X on them.
Other things I can think of that might help--
How much memory do you have in the machine?
The X window system seems pretty unusable with less that 16megs.
What window manager are you running? Are you running gnome or KDE?
I find that on my AMD k-6/233 128meg laptop that X is sloooooowww if I
run gnome. I've given up on 'desktop enviroments' and switched to window-maker.
I think other people like fvwm2 or blackbox as a lightweight window manager.
Heck, I think Lawson Whitney runs X without _any_ window manager. You could
try this sort of thing.
> To give you an idea: if I am in Linuxconf and click on PPP in order to
> configure PPP it takes about 5 minutes for the first screen on the right
> pane to materialize.
>
I've never used linuxconf-- it seems mostly to modify text files for you
(sometimes incorrectly-- at least for sendmail). You can generally set up
most everything on your system with $EDITOR . If you run into stuff you just
can't set up, we can help you.
Lastly- do you have a swap partition set up? Even if you don't use the swap
at all, it really hurts system performance not to have one, as it screws
up the memory balancing algorithms in the kernel ( at least this is what I
understand from linux-kernel ).
Oh well,
have fun linuxing
greg
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