[wplug] Performance Anxiety

[Pete Butler]

Hello.

I attended the InstallFest yesterday (thanks to everyone who helped my wife 
and I!) and got Red Hat 9 installed on my laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 
390X).  I've been playing around with it a bit today, and I've discovered 
that it's dirt slow.

The machine uses a 500 MHz Pentium III with 256 Megs RAM, and it runs Win2K 
just fine (dual boot).  But under Linux, it chugs mightily, and all but the 
simplest applications are crash-prone.

This makes me suspect something is misconfigured.  But before I start 
blundering blindly though config files, I figured I'd post the question here:

If your machine were exhibiting this kind of behavior, where would you 
start investigating?

Thanks in advance,
-- Pete Butler