I have installed 8.0 on PIII and the system became really slow when running anything on it...Such as I have wait second when I open terminal window..Seems like something slows down the whole system...any Idea..I am very new to RedHat...

Open a terminal and run
top
It's a program that shows most processor and memory consuming programs. Please copy the list and paste it to the forum.

But I suspect the graphic card and driver...Because looks to me there is a lot of CPU idle time and the system is still slow...

5:35pm up 9 days, 3:28, 4 users, load average: 0.11, 0.45, 1.09
90 processes: 86 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 11.4% user, 5.1% system, 0.0% nice, 83.3% idle
Mem: 61480K av, 59952K used, 1528K free, 0K shrd, 1124K buff
Swap: 522072K av, 61044K used, 461028K free 14512K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
780 root 5 -10 46344 6796 5768 S < 6.3 11.0 31:42 X
15436 ozgurg 15 0 4364 3692 3400 S 3.5 6.0 0:35 metacity
19252 root 15 0 7640 5764 4152 S 1.9 9.3 0:07 python
15452 ozgurg 15 0 7688 6468 5592 S 1.7 10.5 0:34 gnome-panel
16325 ozgurg 15 0 6764 5128 4240 R 1.1 8.3 0:58 gnome-terminal
19699 root 15 0 1016 1016 772 R 0.7 1.6 0:00 top
15454 ozgurg 15 0 8488 3912 3488 S 0.1 6.3 0:11 nautilus
1 root 15 0 416 380 368 S 0.0 0.6 0:04 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:19 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:16 kswapd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
8 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd
12 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
63 root 16 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
158 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
159 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
160 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
161 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
162 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
474 root 15 0 492 452 452 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 syslogd
478 root 15 0 376 328 328 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 klogd
487 rpc 15 0 468 432 432 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 portmap
506 rpcuser 16 0 472 388 388 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 rpc.statd

It may be nautilus... But it may be a problem with a slow video driver. What card do you have?

What is nautilus?
It has an embedded VDA...the box is HP Vectra VE PIII...not sure what comes with this model...

Here is the TOP output...X eatsto much CPU...


0268 ozgurg 35 10 20276 3876 1972 R N 87.3 6.3 4:47 gltext
19699 root 15 0 872 828 620 R 0.9 1.3 0:20 top
780 root 5 -10 46008 6124 5100 S < 0.5 9.9 32:13 X
16325 ozgurg 15 0 7848 5388 4028 S 0.3 8.7 1:12 gnome-terminal
1 root 15 0 416 380 368 S 0.0 0.6 0:04 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:19 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:18 kswapd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
8 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd
12 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
63 root 16 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
158 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
159 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
160 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
161 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
162 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
474 root 15 0 480 440 440 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 syslogd

Nautilus is a nice looking file manager. The only problem is that it requires much RAM..

you are definetely missing some more RAM, with 64Megs RH8 will be butt slow

In other words, what is swap doing?

swapon -s

Or monitor swap usage with top or better yet (faster update, graphical view), xosview, which is available as source:

http://xosview.sourceforge.net/

or RPM

ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/re...8.0-8.i386.rpm

That was definetly RAM....I realized that very late...and increased it to 256M..and now it is eating all the memory but much much faster.....very reasonable speed....