On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 06:13:38PM +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 10:52:37 AM -0600, Rick Sewill (rsewill@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/help-request-why-is-my-linux-so-damn-slow > > > > You have a very interesting problem. > > that's the same thing my wife usually tells herself when looking at me > :-) > > > May I ask, what is the "purpose" of this system? Is it a server? > > One reason it has so much memory is that it was my intention to also > do some video editing with it (but I haven't gotten to that yet), and > re-ordering, geotagging etc, lots of digital pictures. Another is that > sometimes, I have to do lots of heavy perl- or shell processing on > huge (hundreds of MBytes) amount of text in the background, so I > wanted to be sure that this wouldn't slow me down while writing, Hmm. I don't recall from the original posting, is this a 64-bit version of LInux? If not, and if you have a LOT of RAM (and assuming you're running a 32-bit PAE kernel) you could be running into a shortage of memory in the lower 3 gigs where the kernel keeps important data structures when doing PAE. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) ----------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
