On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 21:27, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > Also, I think that your guess about anti-aliased fonts may be accurate. > I, like the OP, had a very sluggish system and tried the "killall > magicdev" without much improvement. I'm going to try switching off > anti-aliasing though. The system that shows the slowdown is a Celeron 466 > with 64Mb RAM. Interestingly a 650MHz with 128Mb seems just fine. I > wonder what the is the critical point for responsiveness. Just as a point of reference, I have an old Pentium II 300 Mhz, 128 MB RAM, and nvidia TNT2 video card that runs Red Hat 8.0 with KDE reasonably well. GUI system performance is affected greatly by memory and video card as well as by processor. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Life's the same, except for my shoes Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list