[CLUE-Tech] Slow XWindow :-(

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke Marcin
> When I boot my Linux, system see all RAM. My Linux's got 94 MB of RAM available. Look at first lines of my /var/log/dmesg :

Try disabling some unused applications at boot time.  You may have an apache
server, MySQL, or any number of other things running that you may not need.
All of them require RAM space.  KDE (and GNOME) require lots of RAM.  If
you're using up all your RAM and your disk is swapping quite a bit, then it's
matter of needing more RAM.

One possible way to tell if you're swapping alot is that the disk activity
light may be flashing a lot.  But you can't really use this as a measure when
you're starting KDE or your other applications because you'll always be
accessing the disk at startup for a program while it is read from disk.  

R: Linux slower than Win2K - it could be, depending on what you've got running
at boot time on your Linux system.  RedHat 7.3 is a server system.  Win2K is a
desktop, even if it tries to act a little like a server.
 
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Michael J. Hammel                               The Graphics Muse 
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                      http://www.graphics-muse.com
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