Martin,
I am running 9.0 pro on a K6-2 450 @ 256 MB. X is just plain slow, but
the machine is a screamer otherwise. I use the box as a headless server in
runlevel 3 and simply use ssh to interact with the box. It is great in that
sense. Use top to get the details on memory usage. I'm not sure there are
any tweeks you can use to make kde/gnome respond quicker. Depending on what
you need, you might try a lighter weight display manager like icewn, etc...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Mielke"
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
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