Gnome performance question

[Yin Ming]

I got the same problem. My box is very old, the K6-2 400M cpu, 128M
SDRAM, though it's fine when there is not too much windows opened, it
often freeze when I open several Mozila browsers. More dangerous
situation is, when I was downloading big files while opening browsers,
it freezed, and I have to wait a logn while to prevent downloading from
be interupted. I thought it's because my poor box, but Bob's box is
pretty new, is this problem a bug or weakness of GNOME?

I didn't try it in KDE, since it's much slower than GNOME, in my old box.


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:05:03 -0600 (MDT)
Bob Smith <bob at netprt.com> wrote:

> I have RH9, but have noticed the same situation with a Fedora installation.
> Both of these installations are "as is," out of the box.  The hardware
> is a 2.4 GHz Pentium on RH9 and 3.1 GHz Dell Optiplex GX280, respectively.
> 
> There are times when the windowing system comes as close to freezing as
> you can get, and then it takes a long time to launch a window or terminal.
> I can sit and watch the "Starting terminal" message for a period of time
> before it actually shows up.  Sometimes, especially being left for a while,
> or even overnight, it takes a long time to "get to its feet."  At the same
> time, logging in from the outside is not too bad.
> 
> Is there a reason for this?  More importantly, is there anyway to get
> better windowing performance?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Bob

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