[wplug] Performance Anxiety

[Rahul Kalaskar]

Check your /proc/meminfo. Sometimes due to BIOS setting, Linux kernel
does not recognize the entire memory present. BIOS may be allocating a
huge portion of memory to AGP port

Rahul

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 08:17, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> 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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