On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 23:52, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: > I am migrating my workstations to RH9 from WindowsME and 98SE. > So... I intalled RH9.0 and all the workstations are so much slower, all of the > stuff is so much slower. Workstations are mostly Dells with about 900Mhz or > higher, all with 300(-ish) Megs of RAM. System monitors are telling me that RAM > is filled about %95 and swap is filled %5. Any advice on how to make things run > a bit faster without hardware upgrades?
The way RH9 is configured sucks ass, often times becoming unusable even on my Athlon XP 1700+ w/512MB DDR. There are two ways two fix it: 1. First see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89226#c15 Followed these instructions and my systems ran *a lot* better: As root, run: /sbin/sysctl -w vm.bdflush="30 500 0 0 2560 15360 60 20 0" and add this line to /etc/sysctl.conf: vm.bdflush="30 500 0 0 2560 15360 60 20 0" 2. If you're not a newbie, get kernel 2.5.73. It's far more responsive than anything I've seen to date. If you don't know what you are doing, stick to the first suggestion. Regards, -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 (800) 735-0555 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
