On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:37:27PM -0600, P Eads 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 I'm running RH 6.1 from the box on a Pentium 100 (yeah I'm out of date)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
I've not run the modern GUIs on a p100, so I don't know how they SHOULD
respond there, but...
Another possibility is: How much cache does your system have? Is it enabled
(look in the CMOS setup to find out--there probably are entries for both
internal and external cache, make sure they're both enabled)? Does the
CMOS setup have a setting for the amount of "cacheable RAM" ?? If so, is it
set to at least the amount of RAM you have? it is known that if you have
"too much" RAM, i.e., more RAM thanyour system can cache (or more than it
IS caching) you'll suffer an enormous performance hit. I've seen it happen
here on older motherboards, and it is dramatic... everything becomes very
sluggish. One board on which I saw that was an old ASUS with a P90 onboard.
It had 256k of cache, and whenever RAM went to more than 32 Mb the big
slowdown hit. If you get desperate you could try pulling 16 megs of RAM
out of the system to see if that helps.
Fred
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