I'm not sure why your system is so slow, but I can explain the RAM utilization.
I've found out (as I once complained about the same thing that you are) that
Linux uses RAM differently than Windows. It'll take up all "x" (in your case 256
MB) RAM soon after bootup. However, it shouldn't affect the performance at
all when you open program or anything. Instead of taking the Ram
in chunks like Windows, Linux just takes the whole thing at once. So don't
worry about seeing 100% ram utilization. Not sure why
Linux is slow though for you.
> my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem I've already
> declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of SDRAM@100mhz,
> I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3 gigs, and a
> diamond viper v770.
>
> It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource manager(I
> forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to 12 megs a
> second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap file either.
> I don't understand.
>
> Thanks,
> Charles Ulwelling
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Vic
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
>
>
> What is your processor speed, and how fast is
> your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33,
> or scsi?
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed:
> > I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with
> > in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of
> > RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely
> > unuseable. I'm booting into KDE.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charles Ulwelling
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