Re: [ilugd] ram for speed

2003-10-30 Thread Sudev Barar
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:15, Kapil Sethi wrote: Hi, I hope your system now has two RAM DIMMs 64 + 128. That is bound to slow down your system. Remove the 64 MB, and run using a single 128MB chip. You will experience better performance. What I read was that having two sockets filled up is

Re: [ilugd] ram for speed

2003-10-30 Thread Kapil Sethi
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [ilugd] ram for speed On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:15, Kapil Sethi wrote: Hi, I hope your system now has two RAM DIMMs 64 + 128. That is bound to slow down your system. Remove the 64 MB, and run using a single 128MB chip. You

Re: [ilugd] ram for speed

2003-10-29 Thread Balachandran P
- Original Message - From: LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd] ram for speed On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 18:11, arvind sinha wrote: A 700 MZh Pc is fast enough to run linux!! It is a decent

[ilugd] ram for speed

2003-10-28 Thread LinuxLingam
friends got this old celeron some 700 odd mhz type pc. with 64mb ram. he installed redhat8 on it, and it runs really slow, especially when it comes to openoffice. he decides to upgrade ram to a nice 64 + 128 MB. machine still slow. i remembered something about swap disk being optimised for ram.

Re: [ilugd] ram for speed

2003-10-28 Thread J.Mohamed Zahoor
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, LinuxLingam wrote: friends got this old celeron some 700 odd mhz type pc. with 64mb ram. he installed redhat8 on it, and it runs really slow, especially when it comes to openoffice. he decides to upgrade ram to a nice 64 + 128 MB. machine still slow. i remembered

Re: [ilugd] ram for speed

2003-10-28 Thread arvind sinha
A 700 MZh Pc is fast enough to run linux!! It is a decent speed. You now have 192MB ram and thus the swap partition should now be set to around 384MB rather than just 200MB. It should work faster. Have hope, the horse is not dead as yet- fit enough for a few more races:-) Arvind At 03:30 PM

Re: [ilugd] ram for speed

2003-10-28 Thread Spoonman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:30:17PM +0530, LinuxLingam wrote: LinuxLingamfriends got this old celeron some 700 odd mhz type pc. with 64mb ram. he LinuxLingaminstalled redhat8 on it, and it runs really slow, especially when it LinuxLingamcomes to

Re: [ilugd] ram for speed

2003-10-28 Thread Kapil Sethi
[man swapon] otherwise 200MB is quite sufficient. Regards Kapil Sethi - Original Message - From: LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd] ram for speed On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 18:11