[ltp] System performance

[Alexander Wirtz]

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

64MB is ok for a small linux server (router, low-level webserver, etc.) 
but for running a memory intensive programm like a desktop (KDE, Gnome) 
this won't suffice. A working system starts at 128MB, but I'd recommend 
256MB (others may have different opinions on that matter).
You could lower your resolution, but that won't help very much. Having a 
large swap partition helps, too, but this is all like rearranging the 
deck-chairs on the Titanic ;-)

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

 >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to some more up-to-date Win32-Systems here, not some outdated piece of 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 ;-)

Windows2000 won't to very much on a 64MB system either, regardless what 
processor you have.

Regards,
Alex

Adam wrote:
> Hello Alexander,
> 
> Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 8:25:56 PM, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Thinkpad 600x, at 650mhz, 64MB. Installed Red Hat Linux 9.0.  Hard
> disk 11 GB. File system type? Haven't expressed a preference.
> 
> Can't think of any other details.