On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:16:25PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > 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?
Try switching to a simpler desktop for a while. gnome and kde can spend awful lot of memory for stuff you don't necessarly need. Later on, try adding the gnome panel to your desktop (or maybe run nautilus). This would get you large portions of the gnome desktop, but not all. FWIW, I use icewm on a similar computer (though with 256MB) and am quite happy with it. > > My suspects are: > 1. Too many services - how to determine how much memory each service > consumes? Start with ps aux . Try ignoring the "shared" part. wmstat can provide you information about what exactly causes the programs not to respond (e.g: over-swapping?) > 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. http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/01-2004/7844.html ? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
