Am Sonntag, 19. Januar 2003 23:36 schrieb Harmon Seaver: > I'm a bit mystified about this whole "slowness" problem. You're running > a 1.2gig cpu? I'm running several linux boxes (slackware and heavily > modified redhat) on 200mhz and 266mhz cpus and really don't see much > slowness. Certainly nothing with mouse or keyboard. And I like to keep > about something like 12 to 20 windows open in gnome. > I've had 800mhz boxes at work running linux, which, besides booting > faster, seemed little at all faster than my 233 box at home. If you are > seeing real sloth on your machine, I'd try a whole new installation. I know > at one point I was trying some Mandrake issues, and found extreme variation > in installs -- some very, very slow. > But really -- come'on -- I've run web and email servers for fairly large > institutions on 200mhz linux boxes, with no complaints from around 500 > email account users -- and you're seeing sloth in a single user 1.2gig box? > Good grief. I'd wipe it out and start over. Try slackware once, see how > that runs, then try something a bit more exotic. Well =) im not yet on demolition course, since I like my fresh install of gentoo very much, and since I spent a lot of time to get it this way. So, please get me some constructive stuff to try out, and I will greatly appreciate it and try it =). BTW: I dont realy think the CPU makes a big difference, theres something about priorities wrong (my mouse movement is not as important as compiling, or as HD access, or as something else, so it seems to me). I already tried reniceing X to -10 or something, but that didnt change the behavior of my mousepointer :(. Still in need of help... Peter -- If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are for yourself, then what are you? If not now, when? - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
