Necessary System Upgradation for advanced performance

[Frank McCormick]

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On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:26:33 -0400
Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:32 PM, suman<sumandas291 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >      *-memory
> >           description: System memory
> >           physical id: 0
> >           size: 247MiB
> 
> Not nearly enough for Unbuntu desktop. Assuming you want some level
> of performance, and not be rebooting frequently, and not having to
> worry about how many programs you have open. IG of RAM minimum. If
> you don't reboot often (or don't want to) want to do things like
> run more than one browser at a time, you'll likely want more. 4G
> >         *-display
> >              description: VGA compatible controller
> >              product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset
> > Integrated Graphics Device
> >              vendor: Intel Corporation
> 
> Sucks the big one. There are many known issues with Intel chipsets.
> Some are plain bugs, some are performance related. My home system
> (1G RAM) was flawless on 8.04 (before the Intel driver changes),
> now on 9.04 it is a crippled beast that I have to be very careful


   I'm running basically the same chipset with a gig of ram (on a pig
of a 30 gig HD) and on Intrepid the system moves along nicely. When I
switch from Gnome to IceWm, it's twice as fast and that is FAST! It
very rarely touches swap ( thank Gawd -- the hd is pig slow).


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Frank  <fmccormick at videotron.ca>
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