Re: Pathetic Performance
what windowmanager are you using in corel? and in redhat? i highly
reccomend AGAINST KDE on any 486 or any machine with less then 48MB ram. i
bet much of hte problem is kde taking up all the memory and the machine
has to swap to the end of helll to run any app :)
nate
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Bill Keegan wrote:
billk >I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram, >1G hd,
billk >networked with three other PCs. This workstation is 5X slower then a
billk >486-33 running RH 5.0 acting as a gateway, Samba server, mail, etc. I
billk >welcome any suggestions towards finding what must be a gross
billk >misconfiguration.
billk >
billk >On the 486-100 every service not needed has been pulled from bootup,
billk >Apache, Qmail, etc. Using windowmanager with Netscape 4.7 is painful and
billk >literally 5 times slower in creating a new browser window or displaying
billk >a new page the the 486-33.
billk >
billk >I will begin by rebuilding the kernel with i486 optimization but I find
billk >it hard to believe that Pentium optimization could slow it down this
billk >much. Again any other ideas?
billk >
billk >Bill
billk >
billk >
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billk >
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