Re: Pathetic Performance
add more ram.. in cases with 64MB and below, swapping to disk more then
you have available memory really causes severe performance problems esp in
a GUI enviornment regaurdless of OS. and/or get another physical hdd to
swap to. or, run it off of NFS and run the swap from local disk. with a
decent NIC you may see comparable results over NFS as you do from one of
those reallllllly slow IDE drives, but with the added benefit that the hdd
is used only for swap.
and i'd suggest going to fvwm (or even twm *shiver*) to reduce memory
usage even further.
nate
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, W. Keegan wrote:
billk >
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 >I've since recompiled the kernel and while it's much smaller and I
billk >"think" its faster then before it's not at par with the 486-33.
billk >
billk >The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about the 486-
billk >100 (Alice) machine it's only got 20mb of ram. Alice has a Cirrus
billk >Logic GD54xx series PCI card with 1mb ram. Both systems use
billk >the svga xserver. As far as swap space Carol has a swap partition
billk >but Alice has a swap file on the single partition, Corel didn't ask at
billk >install. Top tells me I'm 26M into Alice's swap file as I write this.
billk >
billk >As for the desktop I'm running WindowMaker without Gnome on
billk >Alice and the 33Mhz Carol runs FVWM2.
billk >
billk >Your advice is appreciated and any other suggestions are welcome.
billk >
billk >bill
billk >
billk >PS Hawk the bios has the cache enabled and set to write-back.
billk >
billk >
billk >
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