On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:34:11PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
On 06-May-04 Stan Fraser wrote:
Have put together a computer MB Aopen AX6LC, PII 300, 96mb Ram, ATI Radeon 8500 Graphics Card, SuSE 9.0 and it seems to run as if its in mega slow mode. Can't run any arcade type games as its so slow, any hints on how to speed it up a bit. Also how do you disable the system sounds when a dialog etc opens. Regards Stan
As with Red Hat 9, so with SuSE 9: both KDE and Gnome are now big beasts, and you are probably suffering from this fact: mucho swappo!
Your PII 300 ain't that fast either, but I think the best solution is to give your new one a treat in the shape of LOTS of RAM.
I'd take it up to 512MB at least, to give yourself elbow-room. 96 MB is way to small for fast work with those overheads.
I have a PII 366 laptop with 128MB RAM, and suffer similar problems with RH9: Switching from workspace to workspace, I often have to wait several seconds while the current windows/apps are swapped out, and several more while the new ones are swapped in. Runs snappily enough when all this is finished, though, for the sort of thing I generally do on it, but some apps (e.g. mozilla) can get waist deep in mud at times, since they're big in their own right.
If you're running either KDE or Gnome try getting rid of them and running a leaner/meaner desktop such as xfce.