[wplug] Performance Anxiety

[Vanco, Donald]

I forgot to ask - have you fully updated the system?  If not - you've got
issues.... especially if you selected KDE as your desktop.


I would strongly suggest that anyone managing RH installs at an Installfest
have a CD with all the most recent updates on it handy.  I'd volunteer we're
I not 2.5 hours away..

I can send anyone interested scripts to do an unattended pull of the updates
- although I posted a sample already in an as-of-yet unaddressed email to
the group a couple weeks ago...

Don


Pete Butler <mailto:pmbutler at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
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