Adding RAM

[Brian McKee]

On 13/10/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/10/06, Wei-Yee Chan <chanweiyee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The report looks fine to me.  Is your system running slower than before,
> > or is it just running slower than U expect it to be?  A memory upgrade
> > will not necessarily boost the speed of your system if U already had
> > enough RAM before the upgrade.  Utilised memory doesn't do anything to
> > enhance  your system speed.
>
> I feel that it's been getting slower, like atrophy creeping in
> somewhere. I've had XP, Fedora 3, 4, and 5, Suse 10, and [K]ubuntu on
> this box, with various hard disks and memory upgrades 128MB -> 512MB
> -> 1GB, and it's never been this sluggish. I can type faster than the
> screen can pront them.

Anything interesting by sudo tail -f  /var/log/messages?
CPU fan is working?
Works ok in terminal if not in X?

grasping at straws for suggestions here....
Brian