As I am constantly connected to the net and use chat tools, office tools and browser at the same time, I find Fedora 6 running very slow after some time.

My PC configuration is :

Intel Pentium D with 256MB RAM, HDD : 80 GB (Linux 40GB) on ASUS P5 800 Motherboard.

Do I need to increase the swap file size? I hope I don't have to format for doing that. Please help.

You need more RAM. The most sure-fire way to cheaply (relatively speaking) increase the speed of your computer is increase the amount of RAM. Aside from one server in my house, no computer has less than 1GB of ram in it.

What kind of desktop system are you using? Are you using 3D desktop on it?

The first thing I would do is run "top" from the command line. Most likely you will see "beagled" and its helper right up there at the top. If this is true, quit top and run beagle-shutdown from the command line (as root) and then uninstall it. Do not try and shut down beagle with "kill pid#" as it will restart anyway and you will have to reboot before you can do anything worthwhile. This made made a huge increase in performance on my machine. This has also been discussed in prior posts. If it's not beagle, then running top should let you know what's going on.

Good Luck

I checked with "top" and didn't found anything as "beagled", I think it's the size of the RAM that is the problem. I will increase the size of RAM and then report.

Thanks for your help.