> I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram, >1G hd, > networked with three other PCs. This workstation is 5X slower then a > 486-33 running RH 5.0 acting as a gateway, Samba server, mail, etc. I > welcome any suggestions towards finding what must be a gross > misconfiguration.
I've since recompiled the kernel and while it's much smaller and I "think" its faster then before it's not at par with the 486-33. The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about the 486- 100 (Alice) machine it's only got 20mb of ram. Alice has a Cirrus Logic GD54xx series PCI card with 1mb ram. Both systems use the svga xserver. As far as swap space Carol has a swap partition but Alice has a swap file on the single partition, Corel didn't ask at install. Top tells me I'm 26M into Alice's swap file as I write this. As for the desktop I'm running WindowMaker without Gnome on Alice and the 33Mhz Carol runs FVWM2. Your advice is appreciated and any other suggestions are welcome. bill PS Hawk the bios has the cache enabled and set to write-back.
