Re: Debian PC Requirements
Derek, there is swap... I run "swapon -s" and it gave me exactly the picture you mentioned, except that swap is hda6, and the size is 979924 - which I think is close to 1 GB... However, the problem is that "used" part is zero - why's that? Can I do something to make linux use it? Computer is freshly restarted, so may be it is only that there is nothing yet in memory to dump it to swap?
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda6 partition 979924 0 -1
Regarding the speed: I actually rethought it and yes, Linux is not really slower than win2k - it boots up faster, and it looks like when fully booted, it uses less memory than windows 2000... However, once Gnome or particularly KDE is started, then it just turns into hell - even Abiword starts somehow two-three times slower than MSWord starts in Windows... Evolution starts in probably 10 seconds... may be it is because those desktop environments and programs are slow themselves and it does not have to do anything with Debian.. I am a user primarily, so I noticed the slowness of the overall performance when compared taks-by-task Linux vs. Windows and my subjective perception was that Linux is appreciably slower...
Best regards, please advise me on SWAP.. thanks
Kemal
"Derek Broughton" <dbroughton@netcom.ca> wrote:
> Kemal R Seitveliyev wrote:
> > Well, it actually does not run very fast on my computer. Windows 2000 runs
> > at acceptable speeds.. Linux sort of
> > slows down substantially with every extra program started... I have
>
> That sounds like you don't have a swap partition, the results of "swapon
> -s" should show something like:
>
> Filename Type Size Used Priority
> /dev/hda10 partition 248968 107692 -1
>
> If there isn't any swap space at all, or it doesn't say "partition", you
> need to get some space on your drive to dedicate to swap. It's just not
> believable that a properly configured Linux system on a 300MHz processor
> with 96MB ram will run slower than the same machine running Windows 2000.
>
> > a Toshiba Portege 7010ct with 300 mhz processor, 96 mb ram, and have what
> > I assume to be woody - it got network-installed three days ago, so it's
>
> No reason to assume it is. See your /etc/apt/sources.list. It contains
> lines like:
> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>
> basically if the word after the URL is 'woody' or 'testing' you have
> woody.
> --
> derek
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