Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

[Christopher Henderson]

Unixen seem to use RAM rather liberally, mostly for caching and 
buffering - trust me, most of that RAM isn't being used by apps - so RAM 
shouldn't be a prob.  "Fast" is rather subjective, but it seems that 
Gnome (as well as KDE) are slower then they should be.  Linux (the 
kernel) is plenty fast, as is X-Windows - bot the Desktop Environments 
seem much heavier then they should be.  However, all is not lost.  In 
what ways is it slower?  App launch time?  Responsiveness?  Most people 
will advice you to check and see if DMA is turned on, sometimes its 
turned off by default - turning it on will make a world of difference.  
Also, even in Windows, Open Office is slow to boot.  Thats not a Linux 
issue.

I've run Red Hat 9 on my PII 266 mhz laptop (288 megs RAM) and, while 
sluggish to launch apps, its responsive.  For whatever wacky ass reason 
Red Hat seems to by default launch with background services the majority 
of us don't need, stuff for Oracle and whatever else (I forget the name 
of the service) that simply occupy RAM.  I hear that Ximian's XD2 
version of Gnome is faster then Red Hat's, I dunno if thats true - about 
to install it myself and find out.

~Christopher Henderson

Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote:

I am migrating my workstations to RH9 from WindowsME and 98SE.
So... I intalled RH9.0 and all the workstations are so much slower, all of the
stuff is so much slower. Workstations are mostly Dells with about 900Mhz or
higher, all with 300(-ish) Megs of RAM. System monitors are telling me that RAM
is filled about %95 and swap is filled %5. Any advice on how to make things run
a bit faster without hardware upgrades?
Apolinaras "Apollo" Sinkevicius
Carmel Music & Entertainment, LLC 
web-site:  http://carmelme.com 
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