Looking for suggestions to speed up desktop performance

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On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:18 -0600, Sean Kelley wrote:
> I have been using Ubuntu as my desktop.  I was looking for ways that I
> could improve the desktop performance.  The overall responsiveness
> seems rather poor.  I am using a 686 kernel, rather than the default
> 386.   Things just seem sluggish when I move windows around and the
> windows are slow to redraw.
> 
> My system:
> 
> Radeon 7000 AGP w/ 32MB
> Sempron CPU (1.6GHz)
> Gigabyte MB ( KT600 chipset )
> PC3200 256MB of RAM

Cranking up that RAM could would help. X11 is a RAM hungry beast, so the
more the merrier. I've got 1GB of RAM in my machine, and my windows
still have a slight tail as I move them around. I've also got 128MB of
dedicated video memory in my 9700 too.

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> Thanks,
> 
> Sean
> 
> -- 
> Sean Kelley
>