Re: Gnome performance question

[Yin Ming <yinming mdc-ds com>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:38:58 -0500
Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org> wrote:

> Yin Ming wrote:
> > I got the same problem. My box is very old, the K6-2 400M cpu, 128M
> > SDRAM, 
> 
> This doesn't meet the minimum requirements for a GUI-based Red Hat
> distribution.  128MB is acceptable for text work but not for Gnome nor
> KDE.  Red Hat Enterprise Linux (which uses most of the same core as RHL
> 8) has a minimum requirement of 256MB and 512MB is recommended.

:-( 

> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:05:03 -0600 (MDT)
> > Bob Smith <bob 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.
> 
> This is a known problem and recent kernel releases have made the
> situation better.  Not perfect, but better.
> 

Thx, but what's the reason? Which part of kernel, or Gnome, or X, block
the system, is it a memory leaking, or a IO blocking? 

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