Re: XFree86 running too slow in Performa 6500/300.
Hi Miguel,
the Problem is for sure the installed memory. I would upgrade to at least 512 megs of ram to be able to use gnome in a proper way.
I´m a friend of gnome but have you considered using something lighter till you have more ram available? like xfce or even better an window manager instead of a complete desktop environment.
With 32megs of ram I think fluxbox would be best.
Your machine must be swapping like hell. you could try swapping on an flash memory like an usb stick (does this machine have usb 2.0?). Don´t know exactly how long an usb stick will make it when tortured this way (used as a swap device). Read/Write cycles are limited on flash devices.
Hope that helps,
Michael
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Von: Miguel Da Silva - Servicio de Informática <cibonato@fcien.edu.uy>
An: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. August 2006 17.46 Uhr GMT+0100
Betreff: XFree86 running too slow in Performa 6500/300.
Ladies and gentllemen, I could finally install Sarge in a Performa
6500/300 and everything goes fine but XFree86 is running too slow.
The CPU is a 603ev and the RAM memory is 32MB (I think that's why it
runs too slow).
I've recently installed Gnome and had to wait about 2 minutes (believe
me) until I could run any program.
Any hint of how improve the machine's perfomance?
Greetings.
--
Miguel Da Silva.
Servicio de Informatica.
Facultad de Ciencias.
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