[CLUE-Tech] Slow XWindow :-(

[Warren Raquel]

Do you have the 'mem=nopentium' option set when you boot? If not try it and 
see what happens.

At 07:57 AM 12/15/2002 -0100, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Do anyone know why my XWindow is slow?
>I've been using RedHat 7.3 and Debian GNU/Linux 3.0.
>For example (in RedHat) :
>runing KDE :          it takes me about 53 sec.
>runing Quanta+ :    it takes me about 48 sec.
>runing Konqueror :  it takes me about 18 sec.
>runing KMail :        it takes me about 43 sec.
>
>Is it normal?
>
>My computer is :
>CPU :    AMD K6
>Graph. : Trident 3DImage 975
>RAM :   96 MB
>SWAP : 256 MB
>HDD :    IDE 30 GB
>
>I divided my HDD :
>hda2 SWAP            256 MB
>hda1 Win2K (vfat)    2.7 GB
>hda5 Debian (ext2)  5 GB
>hda6 RedHat (ext2)  5 GB
>hda7 vfat                13 GB
>hda8 vfat                3 GB
>
>In the past I had another partitions, and my Linux was slow too :-(
>Is Linux slower than Win2K ??? I don't believe, but why my Linux is slow? 
>Do I need better CPU ?
>In Debian I compiled my kernel, but runing e.g. KDE or Konqueror take me 
>so much time like in RedHat.
>
>--
>Greetings from Poland,
>Marcin Betlej
>e-mail: marbej at wp.pl
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