Re: (no subject)

[Mark Knecht <markknecht attbi com>]

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 16:44, Justin Bianchi wrote:
> I just loaded RH9 (after three weeks of effort). The operating system is extremely slow. So slow that there is  a 
> delay between my typing letters and their appearing on the screen in Open Office. I have 184 mb memory and 266mb 
> swap partition. 
> 
> I checked the system resources utility and the machine is perpetually using 90% to 95% of RAM and not using the 
> swap partition.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas as to why RH9 is not employing the swap partition?
>  

Hi,
   Probably because your able to fit the programs you are using so far
within 184MB. My machines with no 3D Acceleration only use about 40MB
for a simple, fluxbox-based, installation up and running X. 

   If you continue to start more and more programs there presumably must
be a point where swap gets used or the machine tells you it cannot start
the program. (Or it crashes!) ;-)

   Send a copy of your /etc/fstab file, and maybe something like cat
/proc/meminfo and we can take a look. Send along whatever else seems
meaningful.

Mark