Okay, I ran top to look at the processes. There really didn't seem to be any real bottleneck. In terms of CPU usage, top itself and my terminal emulator used up the most (not much). When I moved a window around, X jumped up to about 80%, but that is to be expected, I think. As for memory usage, X uses the most, but only about 12%. The memory statistics are strange, though. Of my 64 M of RAM, only 9212 K of it is free, but I'm not running very much at all (besides the root processes, like kwm, kdm, etc.). And although I have 72 M of swap space, none of it is being used at all! All of the swap space is free. Is this normal? Thanks, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Rial Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mandrake Newbie Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 17, 2000 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] speed issues > >Try this command in a terminal/console: top > >It lists all running processes. Use shift-P to sort on CPU-usage, and shift-M to >sort on memory usage. Also have a look at the main cpu/mem statistics at that >come before the list; this will help you figure out where the bottleneck lies. > >Oh yeah, pressing q exits top. See the man-page for more details. > >Heh, "see the man-page for more details" must be my favorite quote or something. >Perhaps I should append it to my .signature ;-) > >On Mar 16 Patrick Sisterhen wrote: > >> Harold, >> >> Well, I have 64 M of RAM, as well. And my computer is certainly fast enough >> to handle it without trouble. I've reinstalled also, but still no luck. It >> runs extremely slowly, and it's insufferable. I'm about to give up, unless >> anyone has any ideas. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Patrick >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Harold Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Patrick Sisterhen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 4:20 PM >> Subject: Re: [newbie] speed issues >> >> >> >Patrick Sisterhen wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I just installed Mandrake 7.0 yesterday, and everything within KDE seems >> to >> >> be moving slowly. It takes up to 30 seconds to open a window, and even >> the >> >> smallest applications can take nearly a minute to start. It's maddening >> and >> >> almost unusable. Any ideas on what might be going on? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Patrick >> > >> >Well, for one thing is, KDE and GNOME uses alot of memory and if you don't >> have >> >that much memory, then you might want to add more memory to the system.. >> >I run 64 megs ram and runs fine... >> > >> > >> > >> >-- >> >definition of shareware : try before you buy >> >definition of bugware : Microsoft >> >definition of an adventure : Linux >> > >> > >> > >> > >-- > >Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Belgium tel: (++32) 89/856533 >ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> > >The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. >That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... > >------------------------------------------------------------ > >Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html >Help bring us more Linux Drivers > >
