Of course TWM is going to run faster, but it looks like ass! You guys are skirting around the problem and trying to cover up the fact that KDE/Gnome or any other 'pretty' window manager is going to take resources be they memory, cpu, hd or gpu. Sheeeit, a minimum XP machine these days is like 384MB RAM, 40GB HD, CPU > PIII 800Mhz and 32MB-128MB video card.
If you want a responsive system that looks great, in true Microsoft fashion, you just need to throw hardware at it. You can't get blood from a stone, and you can't expect to run a nice Window manager these days without modern gear. It's that simple. My advice to the original poster is, remove all daemons in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ that aren't needed for the workstation. Mebbe try forcing an inittab of 1 (single user mode) [but I'm not sure if you can run Xwindows in that mode or not (since that is 5)]. Make sure you have a video-card that is supported well and fully in X-windows. nVidia makes great ones (I run my dell i8200 notebook at 1600x1200 and it's awesome). You're mostly in 2D, so video RAM is more important than video MegaPixels performance (3D). Make sure the drivers for the card are in fact loaded and the current ones! Turn on DMA (it's off by default in RH). Get 7200 RPM hard drives and use the 80pin ribbon cables. Watch out for memory leaks. I used to use Gnome with RH8 until I discovered that their default terminal had a leak and my system would start to crawl after a while. Switched to KDE and no problems. Leave your systems ON. Linux likes to maintain itself and run stuff on crontabs. If you power down at night, then next time you power up, about an hour into it (I think it is), you'll notice a lot of shit running -- it's playing 'katsup' with anacron, trying to do all the stuff it couldn't do last night. Now having said all that. I do notice that for certain tasks, WindowsXP is definitely snappier. Like loading IE. Part of that is b/c IE is so ingrained into the OS, it's right there all the time for you. Same with many other 'common' features like MSN, Word, Outlook, etc. Plus, to be honest, Microsoft (as much as I hate them as a company and they make generally bloated/crappy products) have in fact done WinXP right and have had a decade to perfect a GUI. That's a fact. It's a solid and reliable OS IMHO. I've not seen a BSOD in years it seems. And while Linux is very stable too for server side, the desktop side is only a couple years old but maturing rapidly. You can't expect it to be the same until video card drivers are optimized for Linux too. Most of the drivers are hacks for the most part and reverse engineered. (nVidia actually makes a proprietary Linux driver however). http://daevid.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd A. Jacobs > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 8:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice? > > RH9 is dog-slow out of the box. Most of the blame probably belongs to > KDE/GNOME, though. I dumped them in favor of TWM, and my > system now runs faster than it did running 8.0. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
