I think the 2.4 MB box has 256MB of RAM, and I know that the 3.1MHz box has 1GB of RAM, so certainly the second box shouldn't be a hardware problem. Ed, Do you know if additional work is being done on the issue? Thanks, -Bob > Yin Ming wrote: >> I got the same problem. My box is very old, the K6-2 400M cpu, 128M >> SDRAM, > > This doesn't meet the minimum requirements for a GUI-based Red Hat > distribution. 128MB is acceptable for text work but not for Gnome nor > KDE. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (which uses most of the same core as RHL > 8) has a minimum requirement of 256MB and 512MB is recommended. > >> I thought it's because my poor box, > > Your problems likely are. > >> but Bob's box is >> pretty new, is this problem a bug or weakness of GNOME? > > Your problem and Bob's are necessarily the same problem. > >> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:05:03 -0600 (MDT) >> Bob Smith <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >>>I have RH9, but have noticed the same situation with a Fedora >>> installation. >>>Both of these installations are "as is," out of the box. The hardware >>>is a 2.4 GHz Pentium on RH9 and 3.1 GHz Dell Optiplex GX280, >>> respectively. >>> >>>There are times when the windowing system comes as close to freezing as >>>you can get, and then it takes a long time to launch a window or >>> terminal. > > This is a known problem and recent kernel releases have made the > situation better. Not perfect, but better. > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
