Question: Do you have a swap partition set up? If not, that
could make everything reaalll slow.
I notice this, b/c my machine has a faster processor than
yours, 233 MHz, but less RAM, 32M. I notice that, for
instance if I have a page loading in Netscape, and I switch
to another desktop, that the machine starts swapping
HEAVILY. This is a pain, but if I didn't have swap space
set up, then the system would prob'ly slow to a complete
crawl.
--- P Eads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running RH 6.1 from the box on a Pentium 100 (yeah
> I'm out of date)
> with 48 megs of ram and running Gnome 1.0.54 as the gui,
> KDE mail with
> version KDE 1.1.2. Is it normal for the system to be
> unusable while
> mail is being checked or while a url is being loaded? I
> can't switch
> desktops, delete mail or do anything while the mail is
> being checked or
> a page is loading. It has been my understanding that
> linux is better at
> managing programs, but things are not going well with
> this. Do I need
> to upgrade KDE or Gnome or Linux or is there some trick
> that I
> don't know about that will slowdown the bogging down of
> the system?
>
> Thanks for any ideas that are offered.
>
> Penny
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