Hi list, I have an (yes, old) AMD K6-2 @ 400 MHz + 640 MB RAM at home where I installed SuSE 9.0 Pro. It works pretty well as far as I don't push it very hard... for example: compiling a kernel takes about 20-40 minutes, depending on how many options/modules are activated, etc. But there are some preformance issues I'd like to expose and ask for your advice (please, don't tell me the obvious solution -buy a new machine- ;) ): * changing from desktop to desktop is slow sometimes * opening Mozilla 1.7x and composing a message is slow in terms of typing on the keyboard and noticing the delay in the characters to appear on screen - this doesn't happen on a shell. * opening OpenOffice 1.1, altough faster than 1.0, takes also a while * etc AFAIK, the system is using the 640 MB available but as I said, it offers a slower response than when it ran SuSE 5.3 a lot of years ago... So, could be this box be tweaked anyhow to speed things up and get better performances? or do I have to live with its boundaries? ;) Thanks, Martin