[CLUE-Tech] Slow XWindow :-(

[Chris Ernst]

How about DMA?  What's the output from:

hdparm -tT /dev/hda

	- Chris

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 07:57:24 -0100
Marcin <marbej at wp.pl> 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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