Looking for suggestions to speed up desktop performance

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 10:15:50PM -0800, Link Dupont said
> 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

The X server itself uses very little memory, it's the applications that
do (or ask X to).

-rob

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