Re: Memory problem with Red Hat 9 on laptop with 64 MB RAM

From: Lenard (Lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:50:06 GMT

Crooked River wrote:

> I'm running Red Hat 9 (standard "workstation" installation) on an HP
> Pavilion 5210 laptop with 64 MB RAM. It works fine, but everything is
> very, very slow. Sometimes when I have not touched it for several
> minutes, I can hear and see that the hard drive is still being
> accessed.

Add more RAM, take a look at the RELEASE-NOTES on the first CD and
you'll find;

Memory:

- Minimum for text-mode: 64MB

- Minimum for graphical: 128MB

- Recommended for graphical: 192MB

Use a different GUI desktop/manager both Gnome and KDE both use lots of
memory. Many others to choose from; http://xwinman.org/ 

-- 
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