Also, there's a tool that RH ships (or used to ship) on the CD but didn't install. I forget what it's called, but it helps speed up the loading of shared objects.
Jon On 11 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 07:59, Brad wrote: > > I have been using Linux on the desktop at work and home for the past 18 > > months and I really like it. However, at times it is woefully slow to do > > anything. > > No performance tweaking of either OS has been performed. > > I just want to point out here that it's relatively important to optimise > your system before making judgements on it's performance. That's > analogous to chucking an engine in a car and driving it without doing a > tune-up and timing. > > I will say, though, that I've not gotten very good performance from RH 9 > or RH 8.0 AS A DESKTOP WORKSTATION even with the tweaking and tuning. As > a SERVER, that's a different story. I was able to get Evo to open a tad > bit quicker with some modifications to hard disk params and disabling > some system services and the likes. > > Now with Mandrake as a workstation, everything I had setup on either RH > 9 or RH 8 runs quite a bit faster, but then again, a different distro > even though it's based on the RH distro. Same setups, but definitely a > speed increase for "resource hungry" applications. > > Something you might want to try aside from tweaking and tuning your RH > system is to change window managers to something that's not quite as > "resource hungry" itself - something like WindowMaker or XFCE4 or > Fluxbox...that in itself is going to assist in your performance overall. > > -- > Wed Jun 11 08:50:00 EST 2003 > 08:50:00 up 3 days, 18:41, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.30, 0.26 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > | __ __ |kuhn media australia | > | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | > | .\__/ || | | |================================| > | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | > | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 > Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > > No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of > him than he deserves. > -- Edgar Watson Howe > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
