On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 02:36:44PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I am seeing similar. I have two Lenovo T-61s, ans several FIT-PCs > (i686, 220Mi physical memory, no GUI). All are noticeably slower.
This is an astonishingly low amount of memory by today's standards. <https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/i386/ch02s05.en.html> says: You must have at least 485MB of memory and 920MB of hard disk space to perform a normal installation. Note that these are fairly minimal numbers. For more realistic figures, see Section 3.4, “Meeting Minimum Hardware Requirements”. You have *half* the minimum required amount of memory to perform an installation, according to the official documentation. (Which isn't to say that installation is necessarily impossible; people do difficult things all the time.) Also, you said "slower", which implies that you previously ran some other version of Debian (or Linux) on this same machine. If this was an upgrade, then you're skipping the relatively high memory requirements of the installer. <https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/i386/ch03s04.en.html> says: Install Type RAM (minimum) RAM (recommended) Hard Drive No desktop 256 megabytes 512 megabytes 2 gigabytes With Desktop 1 gigabytes 2 gigabytes 10 gigabytes So you're also below the minimum memory requirement for a no-desktop system (220 MB vs. 256 MB), but it's not by a *lot*. So you're probably just scraping by. This hardware is past its end of life, I would say. Anything you get it to do at all is just a bonus.
