On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 07:51:54PM +0900, raphael wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a PowerPC, 64 RAM, with woody updated. Icewm as Window Manager. > > The trouble is: it's so slow, sooo sloooow. It takes 5 seconds to open a > terminal, and so on. XFCE was not bearable. Not to saw about Gnome or > KDE. > The MacOS 9.2 on the same computer is an arrow, compared to it! > > Did I forgot to remove some useless processes? > > Here are a few configuration infos. Thanks in advance. > > raphael@macraf:~$ free > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 61908 60236 1672 0 2876 > 19420 > -/+ buffers/cache: 37940 23968 > Swap: 65532 32764 32768 I would recommend buying some more memory if you can. As someone else pointed out, you are using quite a bit of swap space. While using swap space isn't a bad thing, if processes are being swapped in and/or out frequently, it will kill your performance. I have a 266MHz G3, and while not the fastest machine, the UI doesn't generally feel sluggish unless I'm performing a large CPU intensive operation (like compiling a new kernel), but I also have 288 MB of RAM in it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Nathan Ingersoll \\ Computer Systems & Network Coordinator | | ningerso@ruralcenter.org \\ http://www.ruralcenter.org | | http://ningerso.atmos.org/ \\ Minnesota Center for Rural Health | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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