On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 17:12, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I'm loving my new Dell i8200 notebook computer, and adding 512MB to the > stock 128MB was a HUGE improvement, however I'm noticing that while > WindowsXP (home) seems to just fly along and IE opens up quickly, > Outlook running all the time, trillian, HomeSite, etc...
Internet Explorer is tied to the operating system and therefore is pretty much already running when you call it - that's why IE starts so fast on Windows systems. > > The RedHat 8.0 side of things is pokey as hell. Just having mozilla > running takes like a minute for it to load?! Then if I add in "Quanta" > or "Star Office", forget it. Star Office is very slow at loading. It's also only at V1.0 I suspect the Star Office coders are fixing functionallity issues more right now rather than looking at shortening the startup time. I'm not familiar with Quantra so I can't comment on that. Mozilla doesn't take anywhere near a minute to load on my system (900 MHz Athlon w/ 128 mb ram) As far as outlook running "all the time" - I have Evolution started when I start my XSession (I use WindowMaker) - thus, it too is running "all the time" - no problems. Evolution does take a little while to start, though - perhaps because I use WindowMaker and not gnome (it's a gnome app - and some shared libraries it uses probably get loaded when gnome starts - but I don't use gnome). But I have it set to start in the second workspace, so it doesn't bother me - but is there whenever I need it. > > I got this to be a mobile workstation so > that I could get my PHP/mySQL coding done anywhere. But as it stands, > it's not working out so well that way. It takes too long to do anything. I'm sorry - I find that a wee bit hard to believe. I did php/MySQL web devel on a IBM Thinkpad 600 (233 Mobile PII - I think 160mb ram - might have been 96) and it worked just dandy. I ran apache on it with mod_php and I ran MySQL on it. I used Mozilla to view the output of my code and NEdit to write the actual code. You can get a .pats file for NEdit that does php syntax highlighting. Then again - I wasn't using gnome or kde. They took too long to startup. I used straight up WindowMaker. > It's embarrassing. I thought that Microsoft was always writing bloated > software, but now I'm starting to doubt that. I could add another 512MB > RAM (it's only like $175), but I'm not sure that is the problem, is it? > Why wouldn't 684MB on a 2.0Ghz P4 be more than enough for what I'm > doing? You might want to use a lightweight window manager - though with a P4 and your ram - I don't think that's your issue. Make sure you have DMA enabled - sometimes its not enabled - and it *really* speeds things up, especially if you swap. > > Suggestions? I've already reduced the amount of RAM that mySQL uses and > Apache uses, but I don't know what else to do. Got news for you - when apache and mysql are idle, not doing anything (responding to querries) they don't use squat of your ram. But I'm real curious - what did you do to "reduce the amount of RAM that mySQL and Apache uses" ?? -- Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
