Mike Burger wrote: >I have a similarly configured machine, with the exception of hte RAM...my >PII 266 only has 64MB, and I often note a slowness in KDE, but I assume it >to be a lack of RAM, as I often note the system swapping. > >Check "free" to make sure your system is recognizing the full complement >of memory in the box. > >On 11 Aug 2002, Anders Thoresson wrote: > >>I've just taken my first stumbling steps down on the Linux road, >>installing Redhat 7.3. Many things have impressed me so far, but the >>over all speed of my system is a big dissappointment. Compared to when I >>run Windows 95 and Windows 2000 on the same computer, almost everything >>seems to take for ever. >> >> Clicking "New Message" in Evolution until the new message turns up >>takes a couple of seconds. Starting OpenOffice 1.0 Writer somewhere >>between 30 seconds and a minute. Recieving 500 mails or so from my ISP >>somewhere between 15 och 30 minutes. >> >> My computer is a PII-233, ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC for video, 192 MB RAM >>and 2 ATA33 hard drives. >> >> What's the bottleneck? Could anything besides plugging in more RAM be >>done to boost the performance? >> >> Best regards, >> >> Anders >> >> >> >> > > > I have a 1.3ghz computer with 512 megs of ram I too am seeing this when I fist installed RH it seemed to do ok however I am now suspecting the update2 and the kernal up dates that I have done using it it is not running as fast as it did when I fist installed it I think I am going to start from scratch.
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