Increasing video RAM would only make a noticible difference if you have under
4MB as it is. I think your best bet would be to increase your RAM to at least
128MB. The best way to speed up a system is to eliminate the use of its swap,
since the hard drive is the slowest part of a system. When I initially
installed Linux last year I had 64MB of RAM. I found my swap being constantly
used, and I often heard much hard drive thrashing. After an upgrade to 192MB
(that's an extra 128MB) I found that my Swap was almost never used, and my
speed had increased massively. Other reasons to increase your RAM to at least
128MB include:
1. Less swap accesses reduces wear and tear on your drive.
2. You really cannot reach your processor's full potential with only 32MB RAM.
3. Linux used unused RAM to cache the hard drive, speeding up hard drive
accesses.
The best thing to do is follow the rule: the best swap space is unused swap
space.
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 04:24, Romanator wrote:
> Can increasing your video RAM help?
>
> Roman
> Registered Linux User #179293
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 9:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow
>
>
> Most definately..you need more RAM. At least 64 to run things confortably.
>
> --
> Mark
>
> Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
> WITH WARTS!
>
> registered linux user # 182496
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>
> Surprisingly on Sat, 4 Nov 2000 Larry Marshall had this to say!
>
> > > I have just changed over from Corel to Mandrake 7.2. I have had a
> > > couple
>
> prob
>
> > lems with it. Has anyone else felt that it is very slow,
> >
> > You've got some sort of problem with the installation as linuxconfig
> > should take only a few seconds to load. It takes only 2 seconds for the
> > control center to load on my 500mhz machine.
> >
> > >Its possible it could my computer not having enough power also but I
> > > dont
> >
> > know. Its a Pentium 500 with 32 megs ram
> >
> > 32megs isn't very much to run these modern versions of
> > X+window_manager.
> >
> > >there anyway of Netscape look nice and colorful. Every linux Distro I
> >
> > used has a nice looking Netscape that has colors. Mandrake has this
> > boring
>
> grey
>
> > Again, there's a problem with your setup as it's nice and colorful here.
> >
> > Cheers --- Larry
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