I have both Mandrake 8.1 and RH 7.1. Both seem to run alot slow and use a tremendous amount of system resources than the previous releases. I know that they both use the 2.4.x kernels. My machine is a 400 P-II, 384mb of ram and has a IBM server raid with 5 4.5gb hd in a Raid 5 array. I upgraded from RH 7.0 and it seemed like I was running a Pentium 100 with 32 mb of ram. I am still fairly new to Linux and would appreciate any help. Thanks

Welcome to LQ, Tangle.

What Window Manager are you running? If it's KDE, then there's your answer! I don't know about Gnome (I don't particularly like it, so I tend not to use it), but I know that WMs like BlackBox, FluxBox, SawFish, etc, are fairly resource friendly.

Under Mandrake, if you're loging in with the GUI login prompt, just select another WM; if you're loging in to the console (text), then edit your ~/.xinitrc file and run a different WM.

Under RH, I think there's a program called SwitchDesk, or something, that should let you change WM quite easily.

Perhaps WM.

I have run KDE 1 on a P100 box. It wasn't too bad. What you described is really bad. I think it's the fact that you installed all the default services/servers.

Type socklist and see what comes up.