Getting Sluggish

From: Jeff Golden (jeffgolden_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:56:56 -0500
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Can anyone help with some tips on how to improve my systems
responsiveness? I am using SID on a P42.2GHZ/1GB Ram system. Most
of my problems are with firefox. It sometimes takes a few seconds
just to move between form fields (i click and wait for the cursor to
start blinking in the field). I am also seeing instability in KDE
(usually when browsing media folders), sometimes konqueror will crash.
 In additon name resolution in firefox is very slow (several seconds
per new url). I can go out to a shell and ping and get name
resolution nearly instantly.

This is my first foray into debian and my longest into linux (several
previous failed attempts but i haven't booted to windows in over a
month now). I am still quite new at this and just looking for some
advice. I am tempted to take the easy way out and just backup and
re-install but then when it happens again I won't know how to fix it.

I am also considering compiling firefox from source to tryo to fix its
problems. But I am not sure if that will help at all. I am not sure
what to do about KDE.

I apologize if I have missed obvious documentation on the subject but
are there any 'newbie' friendly guides to performance tuning a debian,
or linux in general, system that anyone can point out?

Thanks!
Jeff 

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