I'm finally getting the way linux works! But I have a performance
problem: I now have a laptop (P100, 48Mb ram, 1.2 gb ide harddisk
partitioned like this: 500 mb windows98 (hda1), 100 mb swap, 600 mb Linux
(hda2)). I installed redhat 6.1 with the gnome and KDE desktop, and lilo as
the bootloader on hda1. When I start windows up, everything goes very
smoothly (like a normal P100 would do - even office 2000 runs like a
breeze), but with Linux everything goes abnormally slow (eg it takes about 6
seconds for the popup menus to appear, and yesterday it took me over an hour
to install a 2.3Mb RPM file! When the computer starts up, it stops for about
30 seconds when the message 'checking module dependencies' appears while
total startup-time exceeds 4 minutes! When I start a program (anything at
all either from the desktop or a terminal) the computer does nothing for
about 10 seconds before the hard disk reads something even though the hard
disk is not powerd down (power management is turned off in bios).
Is this normal? Did I install something wrong, or is this laptop
just not powerful enough do run a decent OS? I noticed that when I start the
gnome desktop (without any applications running), memory is 91% used. I
guess I could just reïnstall Linux to solve this (the first time I used
linux on my home pc - a PII400 with 512Mb ram and SCSI hd - I had a similar
performance problem. I reïnstalled Linux, and the problem was solved), but I
want to know what exactly is wrong (can't learn anything if I just take it
the easy way and reïnstall).
Peter
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