At 7:30 PM +0200 10/12/06, Dotan Cohen wrote: >On 12/10/06, James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What I meant was "why are you upgrading, and what are you currently >> finding slow?" > >I often have at least five programs open (Firefox, Kmail, amaroK, >Kopete, and F-Spot), and this 1.2 gHz AMD Duron machine, even with 1GB >of RAM, is dead-slow. Programs take forever to open, webpages take >forever to load. I have a Athlon 1.2 GHz 512 MB and it is not slow on FC5, though I'm not running the same mix as you are. I think possibly something is not right on your system. Does top show a high load, or indicate that the system is swapping? Perhaps the disks are fragmented -- EXT2/3 data structures don't suffer much from fragmentation, but the file data does. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
