[ltp] Lightening Debian
Kfir Lavi
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 3 May 2005 10:12:15 +0300
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On Monday 02 May 2005 20:56, you wrote:
> 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
Well,
here its the same.
I have tp 570 366Mhz with 320MB.
When i had 128MB it was doing a lot of swapping to the disk.
After i got 256MB stick +64MB on board, the overall speed went up.
So, your problem is definitly RAM ;)
kfir
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