On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Chip Rose wrote: > On Tuesday 12 November 2002 04:08 am, Alex Polite wrote: > > I visited my mother last week to help her setup her DSL > > connection. While doing so I realized that her Windows 2000 350 MHz > > box is a lot more responsive then my Debian/GNU/KDE 500 MHz box. > > > > So out goes KDE. > > > > I tried out the minimalistic ratpoison an ion wms and kind of like > > them. At least they are fast. But they don't handle apps like gimp or xmms > > to well. Now I'm looking something in the middle ground. > =========== > > My wife's Windows98 computer is a LOT faster than my Debian3.0/KDE computer > also. Her's is a 1.3ghz with 512mb RAM and my is only a 450mhz with 128mb > RAM, but her computer *instantly* loads any program and runs many at the same > time with no slowdown. I know that her hardware is more powerful, but it's > like night and day. Mine thrashes around for 30 seconds trying to load > Mozilla, and about 5+ seconds to load KMail, under KDE. Of course mine is > much more stable (uptime now 22 days) as Win98 box can't go for more than 1-2 > days without needing a reboot. I still love Linux because it's more stable, > and Debian in particular, but is there any way to speed it up? Will using > something other than KDE do it? > - Chip > ===========
Another thing you might want to check is if your hard drive needs dma turned on. What speed does "hdparm -t /dev/hda" give you? Most of the debian kernels don't have dma turned on and will give very poor perfomance with data transfers, starting programs, etc. Windows turns dma on by defualt. In my experience, it isn't unusual to have the results go from 6 to 40 with dma turned on. And that will look like night and day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bigfork, MT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
