RH9 slow for my machine

Thom_Redhat · 12-21-2003, 06:14 AM

Hello All,

My Machine:
AMD K6-2 400mhz
256 SD-Ram
4Gb Seagate Hardrive.
Voodoo3 2000 PCI

I don't know why, but i when installed RH9 and i am using the gnome GUI interface. Everything seems 'laggy', for example loading up the shell perminal it seems to 'think' about it and then load up.

But accessing the server directly form the outside world it seems fine, it doesn't lag and it does it job perfectly. Runs PHP/Mysql applications fine, serving FTP fine etc...

I ain't very good within, linux so i carn't really change to a Text based Interface, so i opted for the GUI as i know that will save me resouces.

So is there a reason for the 'lag' or is just the machine isn't very good for the RH9. I can install older RH versions i suppose, but security is a concern and also compatability issues with the newer versions of Apache,PHP,Mysql etc etc

Also when i look under, `services` i see tonnes of services not started, so i am guessing i can remove those services since they arn't needed. As they are taking valuble resouces (hard drive space!)?

Any Ideas,

Thanks Guys!

burnpile · 12-21-2003, 07:47 AM

Your machine is borderline for RH9 with Gnome or KDE running. It's enough, but as you've stated it's a bit sluggish. I'm on a similar machine ATM (Celeron 700 / 256Mb Ram, same slow Seagate 5600 drive) and I see the same with Slackware and Gnome 2.4 . I suggest you have a look at some other, lighter window managers which are lighter on the ram and see if you think any will suit your needs. I switched to XFCE and noticed a very nice speed increase.

Thom_Redhat · 12-21-2003, 08:39 AM

what should i turn off 2 save ram

burnpile · 12-22-2003, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Thom_Redhat
what should i turn off 2 save ram

Anything you don't need

I'd try shutting down things that you :
1. Know what they are and know you don't need.
2. Experiement 1 at a time with the others. Shut one down and see if anything changes for an hour or two, doing what you normaly do with your computer. Use the man pages for services of which you aren't sure.
Here's whats running on mine for comparison.

Code:

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13583 jbh       12   0 10340  10M  7492 S     1.1  2.0   0:00   0 gnome-terminal
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