On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 13:57 +0000, Bob Hynes wrote:
> I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty
> slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I
> could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm
> also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe this box is
> just too slow at 500Mhz?
To follow up on what the others have written:
What, exactly, is slow? Video refresh, or the disk (program and
data file loading)?
What "desktop" are you using? Modern versions of GNOME & KDE need
modern h/w. xfce might be a better
Is your disk system optimized? Run this command as *root*:
hdparm /dev/hda | grep IO_support
You should see something like this:
# hdparm /dev/hda | grep IO_support
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
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