I just installed Fedora Core 5. Only problem is, its running so slowly its actually unusable. My computer has the following spec

1.6ghz AMD sempron processor
256mb DDR 266 RAM
40gig HDD
VESA graphics card
FOXCON motherboard, 266 FSB
Onboard NIC

My HD has the following partition layout

hda1 ext3 /backup (aprox 8gb)
hda2 swap (approx 4gb)
hda5 reiserfs /oldhome (approx 2gb)
hda6 reiserfs /oldroot (approx 4gb)
hda7 ext3 / (approx 7.5gb)

any suggestions for sorting the problem would be much appreciate

Hi.

Could you post the output of the following so we can see what's going on:

# top -n 1
# /sbin/hdparm /dev/hda

Dave

[root@localhost ~]# top -n 1

top - 18:02:17 up 3:34, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 95 total, 2 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 11.6% us, 0.8% sy, 0.4% ni, 86.8% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 645376k total, 408524k used, 236852k free, 46320k buffers
Swap: 1310712k total, 0k used, 1310712k free, 268548k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 16 0 1988 664 568 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.05 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper
6 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kblockd/0
9 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
72 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
125 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
126 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
128 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
127 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
215 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
287 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused
305 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmirrord
314 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 kjournald
[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 78165360, start = 0


I have a 1.3gHz Pentium 4 (single core)
640MB ram
40GB HDD
radeon9800

I'd have to dig too much to find my motherboard. *me yawns


I'll have to admit, I'm a linux n00b, but I had previously set up a functioning LAMP server on openSUSE 10. I was unhappy with the extensive and illogical difficulties I encountered in setting it up, so here I am. Everything on Fedora has felt inappropriately sluggish, even laggy. Opening small folders, firefox (particularly) text and I'm at a loss as to where the "feel" gives me any feedback on where the problem lay. I'll be honest here, between Fedora and SUSE, I've been so angry I've put off reinstalling my LAMP components, so I haven't looked into this more extensively.

thanks for your time, reguardless of any response.
Good day.