You know, I understand all this but you'd think that you could run all
typical daemons without adversely effecting the performance of your machine.
At home I run both 7.2 and W2k, I counted 40 services running on W2K and the
machine works fine. However, my 7.2 is a bit sluggish. I tried to disable
as many daemons as I could but it had little effect.
My impression is its the window manager/environment. It's kind of like you
can't have your cake and eat it too type of thing - you can't have a wm/env
that is both full featured and spunky. I'm sure they are working on it
though...
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1
take a very close look at the programs that are running automatically at
boot time. That could be the source of your problems.
Abe
> ------------ Original Message -----------
> From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:29:08 -0700
>
> I ran " $ free" and saw that I was heavily into my swap, to the tune of
> around 227 M. I switched to Gnome and everything is running much
> faster. I've been monitoring my memory / swap usage, and the most swap
> I've used in Gnome is about 40M running Moz 0.8. That program eats up
> buffer / cache too.
>
> The thing that's really weird, is a buddy of mine is using 7.2 and KDE
> on a 200 PI with 64M and his system runs fine. I think somehow I must
> have sprung a memory leak or something. Oh well, I'm actually starting
> to like Gnome a lot. It's much more stable than it was a couple of
> years ago.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>
> Glen Leinweber wrote:
>
> > Michael,
> > This is a guess... I wonder if 64MEG is close to the
> > limit for 7.2? Perhaps 7.1 fits KDE and one or two apps
> > fits into 64M without going to swap. Once you get into swap,
> > things really slow down.
> > I've often heard that more RAM often solves speed
> > problems.
> >
> >
>
>
