On 4 Dec 2002, Joe D. Trent wrote: >Hi, > >I have RH 8.0 on my Systemax 1.4 Ghz, 30 Gb, 128 Mb, dual boot with Win >2K (24 Gb Linux, 6 Gb W2K). My apps seem to run quickly on Windows, but >slowly under Linux. The problem seems to be anything gui. Text apps run >under Gnome-terminal whiz along, once the window is open. A long text >search/replace runs quickly. But anything else is slow. OpenOffice takes >a looong time to load. Switching tasks is slow on just about everthing. >When I hit the send/receive button in Evolution 1.2, it may take several >seconds to respond. It doesn't seem to matter much how many programs are >open, one or many. Evolution, OpenOffice, and Netscape get tired and >crash every once in a while. Anything I might try? > 192 Mb RAM is the minimal recommended amount for running a GUI with RH 8.0 You can try doing things like using a different window manager, killing off magicdev, not using any memory intensive properties of the window-manager, etc., but ultimately you'll need more memory. HTH, Oisin Feeley -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
