Re: Memory Issues

[D-Man <dsh8290 rit edu>]

Just to add my comments as someone with a little less power than most.
I have a PII 300Mhz with 64MB RAM.  I had 128MB swap, though last
night I increased it to 256MB (I often compile things and run several
apps at once so my swap gets used quite a bit).

I run GNOME on RH7 (worst distro) and used to run it with RH6.1.  I
use Galeon and netscape.  They are both slow (but they use the same
rendering engine so they should have similar performance), but not
unusable.  If I minimize a window for an extended length of time it
takes excessively long to repaint the web page.

XMMS has no problems running almost 24x7.

Last night I installed Debian potato but haven't had a chance to
finish configuring it yet and switching my stuff over from RH.

-D

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:17:51AM -0500, Poletti, Don wrote:
> I'm having performance problems on my machine and I'm 99%
> sure its due to memory issues. I have 64Megs of Ram. But when
> I run Galeon or Mozilla My machine starts swapping like mad 
> and changing windows talks 5 seconds or more. Using Gtop
> I found that Galeon uses 80megs and Mozilla 0.6 was using
> 130Megs! In both cases that was just to launch and display 
> Google's home page. No wonder my machine was crawling.
> 
> What are my alternatives. I find this very annoying since
> IE does need nearly so much ram so this makes Linux/Gnome
> crawl compared with windows running on the same hardware doing
> similar tasks.
> 
> While I'm on a rant it look likes XMMS takes like 10-15 megs
> Is it just me or does this seem way excessive.
> 
> This will effectively keep me from using Linux/Gnome since
> it less than half the speed of windows on my machine.
>