On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:52:13AM -0500, 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.
95% RAM usage is normal. Linux uses unused RAM for file caching, hence, RAM usage looks higher than it really is. 5% swap might not be something to be worried about, I've seen the kernel paging out unnecessary things even on machines with lots of RAM. What's a better indicator is hard disk activity: If the drive is busy a lot of the time, the machine is really swapping, but I'd expect swap usage to be higher (though you didn't tell how big you swap is - 5% of what?). If your machines are *really* swapping while having 3xxMB RAM, I'd be wondering what you have running on them - could you tell a bit more about that? Also, you need to provide more detail as to what "is slower" for anyone to be able to help you. Is it video performance? Openening/writing files? Network? etc. Last but not least: Comparing Linux with the Win9X series isn't exactly fair... Win9X is a single-user system with limited multitasking capabilities, whereas Linux is a true multi-user, multitasking OS. I wonder whether WinNT or Win00 would be slower on the same hardware as well. Cheerio, Thomas -- ==> RH List Archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&r=1&w=2 <== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
