On Thursday 21 August 2003 06:00 pm, you wrote:
> I have a compaq presario 7478 and it is sooooo slow. I have had the dsl
> line checked and it is clean.
>
> The whole computer is slow and is running Redhat 8.0 and is upto date
> with updates.
>
> I have ide-cd R/RW 4x4x24
> an ide hd WD300AA Geom. 3877/240/63
> 3Com 3c59x 100BaseTX (Cyclone)
> Trident Cyberblade (generic) video card
> I don't know the motherboard information
> 384K ram
> too much swap at 780000K
> My Video driver is vesa I could not find what was best for the Compaq
> MV920 monitor.
>
> With that much information, does anyone have an idea of how I can speed
> this thing up? Or find out why it is so slow? I mean I sit and drum my
> fingers waiting for screens to change.
>
> Michael C. Rock
Besides from replying to the cCommerce thread with this new thread : )
I'd say you are running a 533MHz machine with the current heavy duty WM's
like GNOME and KDE which requires a bit more horsepower. Since your CPU
needs to help the video card that will also slow down the system.
Not until I put 512M in a 1.3G machine does it run at a decent speed.
What exactly are you doing when it is slow. Has it slowed down from before?
Did you change anything like running up2date and then it ran slower?
5400rmp drives are too slow too. Modern 7200 rpm drives with decent buffer
size (i.e min 4MB) makes KDE run a lot faster.
Run top as root and see what the load is both in runlevel 3 and 5. No doubt
it is no longer idling along in runlevel 5. If so your system is not up to
running those two window managers. Try any other as they don't need as much
power.
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