Irsan,
I'm having a similar problem, except I have even more memory than you do.
When I run free -m I get the following results.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 10 9 1 5 1 2
-/+ bufffers/cache: 4 5
Swap: 101 15 86
As you can see, linux thinks I only have 10meg of memory!! I even added the
append='128MB' statement to the lilo.conf, but no difference. Run the
free -m command and see if you get similar results.
kevin
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Irsan S. P. Siregar
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 12:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Making KDE run faster
Hello,
I just installing (and start using) Mandrake 5.3. However, I feel
that KDE access my HD a lot, and it's slow (compared to Windoze 95).
Is it normal, or is there a way to speed it up?
My system is:
- Pentium 133
- 32 MB RAM
- Quantum Fireball 6.4 GB (Linux Native and Swap are here)
- Conner CFS850A (slave, not mounted in Linux)
I use the command
hdparm -t -T /dev/hda
to check for HD performance. I forgot the result, but it's quite
fast.
BTW, is there a utility similar to MCLK (DOS utility to overclock
graphic card) for Linux? I run KDE with 1024 x 768 x 16bpp with
S3 ViRGE, and in its default clock speed, it's slow.
Thanks in advance,
Irsan SPS
