Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

[Cornelius Kölbel <cornelius koelbel gmx de>]

The thing with the window manager is true.
I remember running some time ago running fvwm on my 100MHz 80486, and it 
felf as fast as KDE3.1 on 800MHz Athlon.

Cornelius

Christopher Henderson wrote:

> Unixen seem to use RAM rather liberally, mostly for caching and 
> buffering - trust me, most of that RAM isn't being used by apps - so 
> RAM shouldn't be a prob.  "Fast" is rather subjective, but it seems 
> that Gnome (as well as KDE) are slower then they should be.  Linux 
> (the kernel) is plenty fast, as is X-Windows - bot the Desktop 
> Environments seem much heavier then they should be.  However, all is 
> not lost.  In what ways is it slower?  App launch time?  
> Responsiveness?  Most people will advice you to check and see if DMA 
> is turned on, sometimes its turned off by default - turning it on will 
> make a world of difference.  Also, even in Windows, Open Office is 
> slow to boot.  Thats not a Linux issue.
>
> I've run Red Hat 9 on my PII 266 mhz laptop (288 megs RAM) and, while 
> sluggish to launch apps, its responsive.  For whatever wacky ass 
> reason Red Hat seems to by default launch with background services the 
> majority of us don't need, stuff for Oracle and whatever else (I 
> forget the name of the service) that simply occupy RAM.  I hear that 
> Ximian's XD2 version of Gnome is faster then Red Hat's, I dunno if 
> thats true - about to install it myself and find out.
>
> ~Christopher Henderson
>
> Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote:
>
> > I am migrating my workstations to RH9 from WindowsME and 98SE.
> > So... I intalled RH9.0 and all the workstations are so much slower, 
> > all of the
> > stuff is so much slower. Workstations are mostly Dells with about 
> > 900Mhz or
> > higher, all with 300(-ish) Megs of RAM. System monitors are telling 
> > me that RAM
> > is filled about %95 and swap is filled %5. Any advice on how to make 
> > things run
> > a bit faster without hardware upgrades?
> >
> > Apolinaras "Apollo" Sinkevicius
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