On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:38 -0300, Alexandre Vernille 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 > With a K6-2 you are basically running a (by todays standards) very slow machine, and also using the minimum recommended memory for the FC3 distro. The K6-2 was produced about (IIRC) 6 years ago and I never saw one that was faster than 450 - 500 Mhz. Today I cannot find a new processor that is less than about 1400 Mhz, and the average in a new PC appears to be about 2500 Mhz or more. I would recommend a simple upgrade to a newer & faster processor with more memory as a minimum. Barring the processor update, at least add additional memory to speed thing up a little.
