[ltp] Lightening Debian

[Burkhard Woelfel]

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On Monday 02 May 2005 16:21, Bert Haskins wrote:
> cr wrote:
> >I've just installed Debian Sarge on my  Thinkpad i1200 (550MHz, 64MB RAM)
> > and it's very overloaded in X with Metacity as the default window
> > manager, it just about grinds to a halt.
>
> Your problem may be just in having too little ram.
> I have noticed a huge performance difference in fedora 3 between 128 and
> 256 MB.
> If you watch the hard drive activity led it is easy to see the
> difference in the amount of swapping.

770z here, 193MB RAM, 366MHz, fluxbox, kde-apps - everything's fine. Not what 
you'd call a fast machine, but grinding to a halt isn't it's default 
behaviour either. You should get some RAM.

Is the CPU running at its nominal speed?

Regards, 
- - Burkhard


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