FC2 GUI on Intel Celeron 500MHz very slow

[Matt Morgan]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:32:36 -0800, Kshitij Velhal <kvelhal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a m/c with following config
> Intel Celeron 500MHz
> 450 MB RAM
> ATI 3D Rage Pro 1x/2x AGP
> Microtek 17" Monitor
> 
> I am running FC2 as downloaded from Fedora site. No kernel updates done yet.
> 
> The system runs fine except the performance in GUI mode is very very poor.
> In command line mode and through remote SSH logins performance is
> relatively much better.
> 
> I have installed both GNOME and KDE. KDE is the defualt environment
> and I generaly login as root.
> 
> It takes long time to launch applications including the Terminal
> Program. It really sucks while launching firefox or mozilla and even
> more to launch openoffice and other apps like Java IDE's (eclipse,
> Netbeans), GNUCash, GNumeric, etc
> 
> The memory usage is always around 400MB. And I don't think there are
> may services running in background.
> 
> ON same machine I have Windows 2000 (dual boot) and it works pretty
> well. For normal operations memory usage is around just 100-150MB.
> 
> Can anybody help me to improve the performance. Of course I don't want
> it to be like a brand new P4 box but at least it should be comparable
> with what I get with Windows.
> 
> Any tips tweaks to fine tune FC2 ?

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