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Sloooow Redhat 7.2?

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Master of Reality:
Blackbox is a very speedy GUI too.

Agent007:
If u take a look at the system specs I posted, most of them will satisfy the needs, but Redhat *still* crawls and is NOT responsive...


 
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Things that make Linux/Xwindows speedy:

1) lots of RAM
2) Good supported accelerated Video Card
3) Fast hard drive (see the "hdparm" command for possible optimizing of your IDE drives).
4) Fast processor
5) KDE 3.x (included with RedHat 7.3)
--- End quote ---

voidmain:
On the "hdparm" test. How many MB/s is your IDE drive running? What window manager are you running?  I have an older very cheap AMD K6-2 450Mhz system and it is slow, but then I also have an AMD Athalon 1600 w/512MB and a Geforce2 w/32MB and it just plain screams.  

One thing that can make a HUGE difference is the IDE options. I have had drives that went from 4MB/s to 20MB/s by playing with "hdparm" settings.  Although on RedHat 7.2 and 7.3 I haven't had to optimize as it's optimized my drives correctly at install time. Something to think about and it definately makes your apps load *much* slower if not optimized properly. It can very possibly be the most dramatic performance improvement you can make.  

I also recompile my kernel and optimize it for whatever processor I am running on although it may not give you a "noticeable" increase in app load time it's something to try.

Sleeping Dog:
I hope that you understand my intent.  I get old computers that nobody wants anymore.  I load LINUX on them....then I give them away to people who cannot afford computers.

I do not spend money on these boxes.  I just recycle discarded hardware so that poor people can play too.

I like what Red Hat and KDE offer regarding usability for a poor novice getting a "freebie", but what can we do to make it run faster on limited resources so that we can embarass all of those people who just spent too much on a new MAC or PC?

Have Fun

Sleeping Dog

Calum:
kde has a lot of stuff in it, some other desktop environments are smaller and nippier. I think that educating the user to the fact that they can use xfce, or gnome or whatever else, and give them the choice, for whatever things they want to do might be better than just tweaking kde up and pretending it's windows, you know?

after all the numerous different choices of desktops are just one more of the things linux has that macos and windows lack (except i bet macos has something similar now i have said that...), and it should not be swept under the carpet.

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