[ltp] System performance

Alexander Wirtz linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:55:56 +0100


Hi Adam,

you should enclose a bit more information, what notebook you own, which 
processor, how much memory, which distribution, harddisk, filesystem 
type etc. pp.

Adam wrote:
> This is my first time with Linux. It is all set up now.
> 
> I find the system runs rather slow. I take a simple example program,
> text editor, and click it. It takes over 10 seconds for the system to come up
> with this application, and ready to type.  Would you have suggestions
> to improve performance?
>