hi cameron pl do check on this point when u are installing redhat9,u have to select swap size;which is recommended to be double the RAM.have u selected 256MB or more of swap size.actually i am also having the same configuration as urs and the things are at a good speed(with background tasks and downloading etc). thanks samkupar --- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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. [Please press enter every 70 chars or so. Thanks.] | 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. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ What do _you_ care what other people think? - Arlene Feynman -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _____________________________________________________________ Thank you for choosing LinuxQuestions. http://www.linuxquestions.org -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
