Adding RAM

[Dotan Cohen]

On 13/10/06, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks, Brian. The CPU fan is working. Is this interesting?:

dotancohen at ubuntu:~$ sudo tail -f  /var/log/messages
Password:
Oct 13 19:03:29 ubuntu -- MARK --
Oct 13 19:23:29 ubuntu -- MARK --
Oct 13 19:43:29 ubuntu -- MARK --
Oct 13 20:03:30 ubuntu -- MARK --
Oct 13 20:23:30 ubuntu -- MARK --
Oct 13 20:43:31 ubuntu -- MARK --
Oct 13 21:03:31 ubuntu -- MARK --
Oct 13 21:23:32 ubuntu -- MARK --
Oct 13 21:43:32 ubuntu -- MARK --
Oct 13 22:03:32 ubuntu -- MARK --


Dotan Cohen

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