RE: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow
Hi Roman, The kernels are cooking nicely. I've got a 2.4.0 just sitting her waiting on me to learn how to operate iptables so that I can start using it. As yet I haven't read the material to figure out iptables and how to use them to construct and run a good firewall. That kernel and above do not use ipchains. Another great adventure. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 Romanator had this to say! Hi Mark, I have an NVIDIA 32 Meg. card and it sure helps me. By the way, how goes the kernel compilation? Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow Hi Roman, Increasing video RAM takes more of the load off your processor and speeds up video quite nicely. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Sun, 5 Nov 2000 Romanator had this to say! 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 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** 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
RE: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow
Hi Mark, I have an NVIDIA 32 Meg. card and it sure helps me. By the way, how goes the kernel compilation? Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow Hi Roman, Increasing video RAM takes more of the load off your processor and speeds up video quite nicely. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Sun, 5 Nov 2000 Romanator had this to say! 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 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** 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
RE: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow
A 500 MHz processor speed should be fine. I didn't think anyone used 32 Megs of Ram anymore. :) In my view, 32 isn't enough for Windoze, Linux or anything else. I went from 64 to 128 recently and it was a large difference in speed. Do yourself a favor and get more memory. Regardless of what OS you're using you'll find it a good investment. Netscape is Netscape and they all look the same in a sense. You may have just clicked on a link and brought up the internal browser in KDE. -Greg- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow I have just changed over from Corel to Mandrake 7.2. I have had a couple problems with it. Has anyone else felt that it is very slow, whether it is in KDE 2 or Gnome. KDE 2 is extremely slower than Gnome. It takes around 2 minutes just to start linuxconf or the control center. If its me expecting to much I would like to know because it is driving me crazy. Its possible it could my computer not having enough power also but I dont know. Its a Pentium 500 with 32 megs ram so I would think that should be good enough for linux. Also, Is 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 browser with all black buttons, It was the same way in 7.0. If anyone knows how to fix these I would be grateful.Matt Mahoney Mathew Mahoney Arclight Internet Solutions Web Developer / Owner Phone : 801.968.0574 Fax : 801.968.0350 www.arclightdesign.net
RE: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow
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 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** 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
RE: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow
Hi Roman, Increasing video RAM takes more of the load off your processor and speeds up video quite nicely. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Sun, 5 Nov 2000 Romanator had this to say! 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 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** 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
Re: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow
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 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** 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 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler
[newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow
I have just changed over from Corel to Mandrake 7.2. I have had a couple problems with it. Has anyone else felt that it is very slow, whether it is in KDE 2 or Gnome. KDE 2 is extremely slower than Gnome. It takes around 2 minutes just to start linuxconf or the control center. If its me expecting to much I would like to know because it is driving me crazy. Its possible it could my computer not having enough power also but I dont know. Its a Pentium 500 with 32 megs ram so I would think that should be good enough for linux. Also, Is 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 browser with all black buttons, It was the same way in 7.0. If anyone knows how to fix these I would be grateful.Matt Mahoney Mathew Mahoney Arclight Internet Solutions Web Developer / Owner Phone : 801.968.0574 Fax : 801.968.0350 www.arclightdesign.net
Re: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow
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
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 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** 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
