On Tuesday 16 May 2006 11:45, Matthew Stringer wrote:
Just installed 10.1 with KDE on my desktop PC, it's a 2.8GHz P4 with 1GB RAM.
Without any applications running the load average is 2 and it seems quite sluggish (more so than 10.0).
I appreciate that a 2.8GHz processor is a little oldskool these days so I was wondering what hardware this OS is aimed/optimised for?
Seems that the notion that you only need a powerful desktop PC to run Windows is definitely a thing of the past.
And top says? If you really have "just installed" it then I suspect the load might be due to beagle indexing your user folders if you did an upgrade and have a large folder. I've tried the RC's for 10.1 on a 1.2GHz Athlon laptop with 384MB RAM, and if anything it is quicker. It is not slow once beagle gets done. Once beagle has finished it saves results to an index, and from then on monitors the filesystem for changes, and updates the index as necessary. -- Steve Boddy