On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 13:36 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > My experience is that these days, computers have plenty of *processor* > power for most of what they're asked to do. The exceptions tend to be > the programs which the user is most interested in (compiling, encoding, > etc. -- stuff which the user explicitly kicks off and watches). > > So a "slow" computer is actually rarely to do with raw processor power. > It's much more likely to be some combination of the hard disk not using > DMA, or there being a memory hog on the system that is causing it to > swap a lot, or there being something running in the background that is > really accessing the hard drive a lot. Or how much memory do you have installed? You almost need 512M at least nowadays if not a 1G (which is what I use). -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"
