* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080312 15:35]: > If you don't play games or watch videos, then what is slowing down a > 1700 MHz Celeron (or any other 1700 MHz CPU) so that you want faster? > > The most important thing is to have enough memory. With that Celeron > box, doing whatever you do that seems slow, run top and check that you > still have enough memory. Perhaps all you need is a memory upgrade. > > I don't play games either. I can do everything but watch videos on my > P-II with 64 MB ram, however Iceweasel hits swap. Heck, Xorg + icewm + > rxvt hits swap.
Hi, Doug. Having discovered the gnome system monitor, I seldom run top anymore. But I have a gigabyte of RAM, about half of which is "user" and about half of which is "cache". Iceweasel pushes processor utilization to 100 percent; I would like to find a browser which is more economical. I found a cheap AMD dual-core processor, and memory is cheap. All I need to find now is a no-hassle "plain vanilla" AM2 motherboard, preferably with on-board video. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
