On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 05:54:06AM -0600, Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz) wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, fred smith wrote:
>
> > I'm sure someone else has already asked this, but allow me to bring
> > it up too...
> >
> > I've just done a fresh install of 7.2 on my wife's system, the only thing
> > that changed is we put in a new hard drive, and instead of copying the
> > 6.2 and upgrading, we just did a fresh install.
> >
> > It is OBVIOUSLY much slower at everything than was 6.2 on the same
> > hardware. This is not a high-end machine, but OTOH it's no serious
> > woofer either. it's a K6-2/350 with 128meg of PC100 RAM. it's run 6.2
> > nicely for over a year with reasonable performance. All of a sudden, with
> > 7.2 booted you think you're gonna die waiting for anything you do.
> <snip>
> Fred,
>
> I installed the beta version of Red Hat Linux 7.2 on a system with 128 MB
> of memory, and also noticed how slow it was compared to my main system
> (256 MB of memory and SCSI drive). I first blamed it on the smaller amount
> of memory, but then a fellow pointed out that there is a good chance it
> could also be due to the kernel itself and all the VM issues it has been
> experiencing.
>
> Did you try installing a different kernel from the 2.4 series? Did you try
> with the ac kernels?
Nope. I'm not brave enuff to do a heart transplant on a working system!
> I still have a feeling if you add more memory (pretty cheap these days, isn't
> it?:) ) it should work fine. Of course, that brings up a completely
Well, maybe, maybe not. I can't imagine what running a plain Gnome
desktop with no particular apps running on 192 megs of RAM would do that
requires more. Especially since it was NOT swapping (at all) during any
of my testing. Zero swap in use, 500 megs available.
Curiously, when working on stuff at a text console, it seems fine for
the set of things I was doing. I wonder if it's just Gnome/Eazel that's
become pig slow. I'll have to try it with KDE or some simpler desktop
toolset.
> different issue: is Red Hat Linux able to run on older hardware with not so
> much memory? My guess is that it would as long as you don't install XFree86,
> KDE, Gnome, etc. but this is admittedly only a guess.
I've installed 7.1 on a 486/66 with 20 megs of RAM. While it was no
speed demon, it was about like you'd expect. Unfortunately due to the
horrid old video card in that box I never could get X going.
One of the reasons I want to use 7.2 (could use 7.1 I suppose) is because
I want to use the Promise controller, and the 2.2 kernel series doesn't
support this particular card. Get about 3 times the thruput compared to
not using it.
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