Re: Pathetic Performance
--- "W. Keegan" <billk@umpire.dhs.org> wrote:
> I've since recompiled the kernel and while it's much smaller and I
> "think" its faster then before it's not at par with the 486-33.
I told you :)
> The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about the 486-
> 100 (Alice) machine it's only got 20mb of ram.
That's a problem. RAM is essential for good performance. Give it a bit more.
> As far as swap space Carol has a swap partition but Alice has a swap file
on
> the single partition, Corel didn't ask at install.
So change it manually. A swap file is worse than a dedicated partition.
> Top tells me I'm 26M into Alice's swap file as I write this.
8-O no wonder it's slow...
> As for the desktop I'm running WindowMaker without Gnome on Alice and the
> 33Mhz Carol runs FVWM2.
I dumped WindowMaker for Sawmill on my PPC box with 48M RAM because it was
too slow...
The short story is: If your system hits swap heavily, it's _dead_.
Michel
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