Walter Dnes wrote: > > > A year ago, I was using a 1999 Dell (128 megs RAM, 450 mhz PIII) as my >main machine. I still have it around as my emergency backup. KDE >"runs" (would you believe crawls) painfully slowly on that machine. >Using blackbox plus fbpanel, it's perfectly OK for most stuff, except >that it drops frames on "internet TV" and working with 2560x1920 digital >photos in Gimp is "leisurely". On my AMDK8, in 32-bit mode, it screams. > > >
I have ran a old 400MHz machine with 128MBs of ram before. If you can get some more ram in there, it will run a lot faster. It is the ram more than the CPU that is holding you back speed wise. I put in another 128MBs and the speed was about three times faster. I had the same issue with a AMD 800Mhz machine with 128MBs. I just added 64MBs to it and it was a lot faster. I increased the 800MHz machine to about 300MBs later on. It helped some but not a lot. I just happened to get a system that didn't work but had some ram in it. I suspect KDE, and the kernel, needs about 200MBs together to run efficiently. This is based on my experience. I would not try to run a system with 128MBs again, unless I had too. Just a thought. Dale :-) Let's see if I can send email tonight. < says prayer > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
