Performance shock
aburda
ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Sun May 1 17:59:37 UTC 2005
Tomas
Thanks for the info, I updated my swappiness without a problem. On the
other points, I've got the 24 bit Intel X11 driver installed. Just out
of interest, how does one change their X driver, I understand the
xorg.conf part but how do you actually install the driver files?
Static IP address is out as i'd have to pay my ISP a bunch of money for
it. Is there a way to edit the rc files so that it only loads the DHCP
client?
One of the things I've noticed about OpenOffice being a dog (and to be
honest it is the worst case) is that it is extremely slow when opening
from a file clicked on in nautilus but if I do an "Open Recent" from
within OO then it opens fairly quickly. In general though OO is
sluggish. Clicking on a mispelled word to see what the proper word is
gets the system swapping.
I'm actually only a pseudo-new user in that when I was sixteen for
about two years I used linux (in '92) so I can remember running X on a
system with 16 megs of ram. If 16 megs used to suffice for fvwm, do
the improvements in gnome really warrant making a system with only 256
megs thrash? I suppose I could always go to one of the other windows
managers, KDE is supposed to be even more of a memory hog....but I
really like nautilus.
About the kernel, I've been meaning to get to this. I already
recompiled my 686 kernel in order to add an ALPS touchpad patch but it
didn't go very well. Can you recommend a good kernel compiling and
patching howto. One of the problems I had last time was that with the
new kernel I'd made, my screen went blank during the boot up process,
i.e. there was a problem with the kernel displaying a regular shell,
but once it got to the gui worked fine. I boot with the vga=771
option. Any ideas as to what I did wrong? Anyway, sometime in the
next couple of days I'll dedicate four hours or so to recompiling.
And more importantly sometime in the next couple of weeks I'll go buy
myself some more RAM.
Thanks for the help
Aaron
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aburda
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