On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:04:47 -0700, "Hawkeye Parker" <hawkeye.parker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i've recently installed redhat 9.0 on an athalon 650 with 128MB ram. > i've previously run various linux flavors from the commandline, but > i'd like to make the switch to X, primarily so that i can toss my > windows box out the _window_ once and for all. > the installation went without a hitch: i just held down 'next' and > went with the defaults. when i finally booted, however, X took > forever to load, and once it was up, *everything* ran *very* slowly > (10-15 secs to load mozilla). a quick look at the system monitor > shows that my ram is almost gone (111 out of 128) and the cpu is > frequently pinned. this is with *nothing* open other than startup > processes. > is something wrong, or do i need a faster system to run X? in it's > current state, it's unusable. Things you can do: 1. Check if your system is properly configured, despite instalation without a hitch it could have misconfigured something. Check if your disk drives are running in DMA mode (man hdparm). Uncomment these lines in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks file: USE_DMA=1 LOOKAHEAD=1 EIDE_32BIT=3 This should speed your disks a little. 2. Disable unwanted system services - if your system is plain desktop/workstation/network client you should not need most of them. 3. Have you installed accelerated drivers for your graphics card? 4. Try running one of light-weight window managers f.e. FluxBox, FVWM, IceWM, WindowMaker (my favourite), AfterStep or whatever (there are plenty of them) - simply KDE or GNOME *are* heavy, a bit bloated (concerning my own neds) and sluggish. 5. Instead of Mozilla (which is also sluggish) try running MozillaFirebird (which is slightly faster) or Opera (which is a speed deamon). 6. You also can just load Mozilla on startup of yours X session and keep it open in memory to prevent long load times. :-) 7. Get more RAM. But I think the issue is something wrong with your configuration, Currently I am typing from Pentium2 266Mhz box with 96 megs RAM, slow notebook harddisk and it is just fine for me. -- ,--------, |`. .'| Konrad Kosmowski |.'`--'`.| K_Kosmowski@xxxxx '--------' -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
