Re: [SLE] Tweaking SuSE 9.0 Pro on a K6-2

From: Jerome R. Westrick (jerry_at_Westrick.com)
Date: 05/10/04

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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:05:22 +0200

    On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:06, Martin Mielke wrote:
    > Hi list,
    >
    > I have an (yes, old) AMD K6-2 @ 400 MHz + 640 MB RAM at home where I
    > installed SuSE 9.0 Pro.
    > It works pretty well as far as I don't push it very hard... for example:
    > compiling a kernel takes about 20-40 minutes, depending on how many
    > options/modules are activated, etc. But there are some preformance
    > issues I'd like to expose and ask for your advice (please, don't tell me
    > the obvious solution -buy a new machine- ;) ):
    >
    > * changing from desktop to desktop is slow sometimes
    > * opening Mozilla 1.7x and composing a message is slow in terms of
    > typing on the keyboard and noticing the delay in the characters to
    > appear on screen - this doesn't happen on a shell.
    > * opening OpenOffice 1.1, altough faster than 1.0, takes also a while
    > * etc
    >
    > AFAIK, the system is using the 640 MB available but as I said, it offers
    > a slower response than when it ran SuSE 5.3 a lot of years ago...
    >
    > So, could be this box be tweaked anyhow to speed things up and get
    > better performances? or do I have to live with its boundaries? ;)
    >
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Martin
    >
    >
    >
    I would suggest you drop kde... go with a lighter windows manager like
    xcfe. You'll get better performance but loose a few nice features...

    Jerry 

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