Re: Slow System

[D0sE <dose Relic Net>]

well for u transfer speed ull have to look for a good init string for ur
modem so it works better with ur isps modems..
if its taking long to load it could be ur hostname if the hostname on ur
box does not resolve its gonna take a long time to open netscape BitchX
and some stuff check those things out..
and look for the right init string for the exact model brand modem  u have

att
Orlando Cruz

On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Ed Wolfe wrote:

> I accomplished the most amazing thing today, I actually 
> dialed into to my ISP and got connected. 
> 
> Now, I've got a problem.
> 
> One reason I wanted to become a Linux user was that a friend 
> of mine said that it's more stable, faster, is a true
> multi-task OS and it can put all of your RAM to use, unlike
> Win95.
> 
> When I was running Communicator a while ago, it was painfully
> slow. Just trying to delete a message would take about
> 20 seconds. Then reading the next one in line took forever
> too. Just a 1k message said "98% read (stalled)", and then 
> another 15 seconds and it finished loading.
> 
> I didn't have the colored graph thing going, but I had the fvwm buttons
> on the bottom right hand visible and the box on the left which looks
> like it charts system resource usage was completely filled up and
> frequently spiking and filling in above the black line.
> 
> I reset X to only use 16bit graphics instead of 24 bits and that
> didn't help.
> 
> Another thing that happened a few times is I would end up suddenly
> being at another section of the desktop, as if I had clicked on
> a blank square in that thing in the bottom right corner. 
> 
> Once, XWin just shut down and I was back in a shell. It restarted
> just fine, until I started Communicator again.
> 
> I've got a 5X86 board. 133mhz, 20MB RAM, 20MB Swap partition,
> at least 150MB free disk space.
> 
> Could it be that I don't have a /home partition or directory?
> I think all of my programs, system files and everything
> are in /root.
> 
> I hope this is fixable. If someone had just set this up, said, "Here's
> Linux," and left, I'd be wanting my Win95 back. But I've got too many
> months invested in this to just give up now.
> 
> Anyone familiar with a problem like this?
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
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