more RAM as a solution (sluggishness)

[René]

> Am 03.01.2006, 23:21 Uhr, schrieb Kim Briggs <patiodragon at gmail.com>:

>> my machine has a great sluggishness too.
>> first I encountered that with the upgrade to Breezy (Warty was  
>> definitely faster on my machine).
>> once I also questioned the almost allways fully used RAM (in my case
>> 256MB). the answer was that Ubuntu (Linux) does rather use RAM than  
>> going to the harddisk (SWAP).

> I suggest the best way for you to find this out is to use one of the
> applets that is available with gnome to test the resources used on
> your machine.  Right-click on the panel, choose "add to panel", and
> under "system & hardware" choose "system monitor".  You can choose
> options to show the CPU, RAM, and Swap usage, among others.

oh, i do use that monitor since long time.
right now, may main problem is a startup time (from switch on to the  
login) of 2.5 minutes !
and it seems to me that it even became worst with disabling some services  
(like apmd, atd, bluez-utils, pcmcia, readahead, pppd-dns, ntpdate,...).
and, of course, the sluggish performance of the applications. i did work  
with WinXP the last few days, and i have to say, it does work with well  
speed. :-(