On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Blais Klucznik wrote about, X-Windows, Linuxconfig and a 486:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> It appears that one can barely run X-Windows on a 486 and simply
> shouldn't even consider running Linuxconf in a terminal window. Its
> speed is simply is not acceptable. This is what I have experienced.
>
> Any comments from the group?
Yes plenty.
You make no mention of how much memory you have, both ram and swap.
You say configure PPP with linuxconf, now that suggests in itself that
there could be a domainname lookup problem causing the 5 minute delay.
You cannot expect any system to run properly if it is nopt configured
properly.
You supply the infomation and we will try to help, we need the output if
'free' for the memory side, is your hostname defined in /etc/hosts, and is
there any output in the system logs from linuxconf, i am sure there is
because there is something wrong.
>
> Blais Klucznik
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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