[ltp] System performance

[Adam]

Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 9:10:35 PM, you wrote:

> Umm, this is a fairly easy thing: Install some memory.

Can anyone assist in identifying what kind of memory the Thinkpad 600x
uses?

Can you buy it in stores?

> Otherwise your system is very well capable of running Linux.

>  From your other mail:

>  >>A dmesg output
>  >pardon?
> dmesg is a command entered on shell-level, it outputs the messages the 
> system creates on booting the system

I try clicking RUN, and typing 'dmesg'. But the desktop remained
unchanged. It didn't seem anything happened.

>  >Even on a 200Mhz desktop under Windows, notepad would come up in well
>  >under a second.
> Yes, I guess you're talking Win9x here, but you should compare your RH9 
> to some more up-to-date Win32-Systems here, not some outdated piece of 
> crap ;-)

Well, if it is very up-to-date Windows software that is only released
in the last 2-3 years, then trying to run software on a desktop almost
a decade old is likely more by definition to overload the system.  So
comparison not so fair.

-- 
Best regards,
 Adam