Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
[Please press enter every 70 chars or so. And please don't top post, and trim the irrelevant quoted material. It makes it easier for everyone else. Thanks.] On 06:39 22 Oct 2003, sam kupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | when u are installing redhat9,u have to select swap size;which is | recommended

Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-22 Thread sam kupar
hi cameron pl do check on this point when u are installing redhat9,u have to select swap size;which is recommended to be double the RAM.have u selected 256MB or more of swap size.actually i am also having the same configuration as urs and the things are at a good speed(with background tasks and

newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-21 Thread Hawkeye Parker
hi, i've recently installed redhat 9.0 on an athalon 650 with 128MB ram. i've previously run various linux flavors from the commandline, but i'd like to make the switch to X, primarily so that i can toss my windows box out the _window_ once and for all. the installation went without a hitch:

Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-21 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:04:47PM -0700, Hawkeye Parker wrote: i've recently installed redhat 9.0 on an athalon 650 with 128MB ram. For starters, you are below the recommended configuration. The absolute minimum is 128MB, with 192MB recommended for a graphics workstation.

Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-21 Thread mwafkowski
It also wouldn't hurt to have a halfway decent video card...you didn't specify what yours is. Regards, Mike Wafkowski - Original Message - From: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 6:26 PM Subject: Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow On Tue

Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-21 Thread Konrad Kosmowski
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:04:47 -0700, Hawkeye Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've recently installed redhat 9.0 on an athalon 650 with 128MB ram. i've previously run various linux flavors from the commandline, but i'd like to make the switch to X, primarily so that i can toss my windows box

Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17:26 21 Oct 2003, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:04:47PM -0700, Hawkeye Parker wrote: | i've recently installed redhat 9.0 on an athalon 650 with 128MB ram. | | For starters, you are below the recommended configuration. The absolute | minimum is 128MB, with

Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13:04 21 Oct 2003, Hawkeye Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | the installation went without a hitch: i just held down 'next' and | went with the defaults. when i finally booted, however, X took forever | to load, and once it was up, *everything* ran *very* slowly (10-15 secs | to load