Computer not running at highest possible speed
Dear Debian-User Mailing List Subscribers,
I've been running Debian for quite some time now on m\any different
machines, I would not call myself a Linux expert but i do know my way
around, and use it mostly for my Computer Science Education and ofcourse
to support the Open Source Community. I've been running Debian on a P1
333Mhz, a P2 500Mhz, an iBook 400Mhz, a P3 1Ghz and most recently I
installed Debian sarge on a P4 2Ghz machine using the new
debian-installer. After setting up this new machine, which previously
ran windows XP, I started noticing that many processes were not running
at optimal capacity. When I play games the graphics are slow, and I
usually have to turn down a lot of options, for example, when i play
Battle for Wesnoth, during the automated sequences the scrolling is not
smooth, and waiting for my turn takes forever. This was never a problem
when it ran Windows. Even firefox takes a while to open a new tab, and
opening new windows in Gnome takes longer than one would expect. I
talked to a friend about this problem, and he told me, that he noticed
the same issues running Debian on a Toshiba laptop. He switched to
Fedora Core 2 and now does not have the same lag in everyday use. I am
not willing to switch to Fedora because I do not like working with RPMs
but the thought of switching to a different distribution has crawled
through my mind. Now before I make my final decision I decided to
subscribe to this mailing list once again (i was subscribed when i first
started out using linux) and see if anybody had any ideas why this is
happening? If it's a problem with my kernel configuration, or with my
video card or maybe the way I partitioned my box. So if anybody has any
ideas, or any tips on how i could get my computer to run at it's highest
capacity please let me know.
Thanks in Advance, Anything will probably help!
Jule
Computer Specs:
Pentium 4 1Ghz (Dell Dimension 8200)
512 MB RAM
nVidia GeForce4 MX 420
Realtek Semiconductor RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
partition table (made by debian-installer)
/dev/hda1 * 1 851 6835626 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 852 9729 71312535 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 852 9667 70814488+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 9668 9729 497983+ 82 Linux swap
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Jule Slootbeek
jslootbeek@clarku.edu
http://www.thesloot.com
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