Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

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On 13:04 21 Oct 2003, Hawkeye Parker <hawkeye.parker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 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.

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| is something wrong, or do i need a faster system to run X? in it's current state, it's unusable.

Your machine _should_ be fine. Mozilla does take a long time to load
initially.  Try getting FireBird or Galeon or Konqueror - any of these
may be smaller. Once Mozilla (or whichever browser) is up, subsequent
new pages should come up close to instantly.

CPU usage: Pop up a terminal and run "top". That will show you what
processes are using most of the CPU at any given time. Then let us know -
we can be more helpful then.

Having all your RAM in use is normal and desirable. The more that's in
RAM, the less that must be fetched from disc, which is a speed win.
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