Re: speed of X

1997-08-05 Thread Paul Wade
Pete, I mentioned windows because I understand it exhibits both problems. It doesn't use a large swap space and it can slow down with the management overhead. I haven't noticed any difference in speed with Linux when I give it a 128mb swap even if 20 mb is enough. In other words, a system

Re: speed of X

1997-08-05 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > Linux will use a swap partition of up to 128 meg. You can add swap files > if you need more. I haven't heard anything about slowdowns. Maybe you're > thinking about windows swap usage and performance? Somebody correct me if > I'm wrong. I know that Linux (o

Re: speed of X

1997-08-04 Thread Will Lowe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > is there any way of speeding up X? It seems to run significantly slower > than Windows '95. Both are on my Cryix 166+ w/ 16 RAM. In a few days I'm > going to add 64 megs of RAM, will that speed it up much? My server i

Re: speed of X

1997-08-04 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > is there any way of speeding up X? It seems to run significantly slower > than Windows '95. Both are on my Cryix 166+ w/ 16 RAM. In a few days I'm > going to add 64 megs of RAM, will that speed it up much? My serv

Re: speed of X

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a 64MB swap disk.. I know hard drives are about 100x slower (at least) .. anyhow I heard something about having at swap disk over 16 megs will slow things down.. and Linux won't even use past 16 megs.. is this true? - -Paul On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Shaya Pott

Re: speed of X

1997-08-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I have a 64MB swap disk.. I know hard drives are about 100x slower (at > least) .. anyhow I heard something about having at swap disk over 16 megs > will slow things down.. and Linux won't even use past 16 megs.. is this > true? I tried to make a 256MB swa

Re: speed of X

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Wade
Linux will use a swap partition of up to 128 meg. You can add swap files if you need more. I haven't heard anything about slowdowns. Maybe you're thinking about windows swap usage and performance? Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I have a 64MB swap disk..