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). If at all possible, add some RAM. That will speed things up considerably. If you can't, and you're running Gnome or KDE, try switching to XFCE (included on your FC3 CDs). XFCE is a much lighter environment and should be quite a bit snappier. You might also try killing Nautilus (if you really like the Gnome Panel over XFCE). This will mean you won't have desktop icons, but your system should run a lot faster. (I use this trick on an old P233 with 96MB of RAM - a laptop) > Mozilla is taking 20 sec to load, OpenOffice applications even longer. > On the System Monitor, it looks like the RAM is too busy... You may wish to try tuning your hard drive with hdparm. This may help your loading times. (More RAM would also help, or using a less RAM-hungry desktop environment like XFCE). Also, you can disable some unneeded services using system-config-services, which should free up some RAM and CPU. A faster hard disk is also a good option on older/slower machines (especially a laptop). -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Charles Taylor <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chemistry teacher, Linux enthusiast! -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------
