On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:38:18 -0300 (ART), Alexandre Vernille <avernille@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would like to adopt Fedora2 / 3 as my preffered OS at home. However I need > first to improve its performance on my machine (an AMD K6_2 with 128 MB > RAM). > > Mozilla is taking 20 sec to load, OpenOffice applications even longer. On > the System Monitor, it looks like the RAM is too busy... > > Any hints or sites where I could find the basics on improving performance? > Should I try another Linux? > TKS, A > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador do > Yahoo! agora. If it is mozilla firefox, here are some ideas/URL to speed that part of it up, I did it and it works. For the OS as a whole, that is another story, but Fedoras run on incredibly old boxes, sounds like yours is in the middle somewhere. I don't think changing distributions would necessarily make a differrence. Maybe there re some packages you could uninstall. If you are running GNOME try switching to KDE, it is faster in my experience. ---Marc <pasted from a list> 1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. ForeverGeek URL: http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php <end>
