On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:32:36 -0800, Kshitij Velhal <kvelhal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a m/c with following config > Intel Celeron 500MHz > 450 MB RAM > ATI 3D Rage Pro 1x/2x AGP > Microtek 17" Monitor > > I am running FC2 as downloaded from Fedora site. No kernel updates done yet. > > The system runs fine except the performance in GUI mode is very very poor. > In command line mode and through remote SSH logins performance is > relatively much better. > > I have installed both GNOME and KDE. KDE is the defualt environment > and I generaly login as root. > > It takes long time to launch applications including the Terminal > Program. It really sucks while launching firefox or mozilla and even > more to launch openoffice and other apps like Java IDE's (eclipse, > Netbeans), GNUCash, GNumeric, etc > > The memory usage is always around 400MB. And I don't think there are > may services running in background. > > ON same machine I have Windows 2000 (dual boot) and it works pretty > well. For normal operations memory usage is around just 100-150MB. > > Can anybody help me to improve the performance. Of course I don't want > it to be like a brand new P4 box but at least it should be comparable > with what I get with Windows. > > Any tips tweaks to fine tune FC2 ? Search for my most recent posts; we're working on a similar question in another thread. The links pasted to the bottom of this message can take you to the list archive.
