The laptop's hard disk size is 20GB, 3GB of which was reserved by IBM for restoration. The rest 17GB is more than adequate for my needs.
The processor's L1 cache size is 8KB, and L2 cache size is 256KB.
In fact, my home PC (with RedHat 8.0, 256MB memory, more than one open application, Pentium 4 1.7GB CPU (with reported cache sizes the same as my laptop's processor) has 3374.09 BogoMIPS rating (slightly lower than my laptop's processor) - and applications load and start much quickly than on my laptop. According to top, my home PC uses about 124MB of the memory for caching files - and this with heavier mix of open applications than my typical use of the laptop.
So I would be very surprised if raw memory size turns out to be the bottleneck.
Ariel Biener wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Omer Zak wrote:
Omer, what did you run there before ? Was it faster ? What hard disk does it have ? 128M RAM ?????
--Ariel
I have the feeling that my Fedora Core 1 Linux installation on a IBM ThinkPad R40e laptop is too slow to start up applications. Once an application has been started, its response time is adequate. This happens even when I start up only a term and a relatively fast application (AbiWord).
The system configuration is: 128MB memory 256MB swap 1.7GHz Intel Mobile Celeron (stepping 07) processor (3381.65 BogoMIPS) Gnome desktop
What should I check in order to speed up the system?
My suspectsare: 1. Too many services - how to determine how much memory each service consumes? 2. Slow version of libraries (I vaguely remember having read something about this about RedHat 9.0).A google search caused me to feel as if I am searching for a needle in a big pile of hay.
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