Slow system

[Carla & Dick Bickert]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:51:09PM -0600, Carla & Dick Bickert wrote:
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>>I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 9.  It boots fine and there 
>>appear to be no problems, but the GUI runs EXTREMELY slow (openoffice 
>>takes 3-4 minutes to come up).  The computer has a Celeron processor 
>>running at 667 Mhz and the hard drive is plenty big.  Any suggestions?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Dick
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>Post the results of running "free".  That may well tell the story.
>
>Cheers,
>  
>


The results of  "free" are as follows:

                 Total        Used       Free      Shared     Buffer     
Cached
mem           60348    59456     892          0             1396       14160
-/+ buffers/cache:      43900     16448  

Swap:        192772    40432    152340     0

I'm new at Linux, so keep your answers at an elementary level (if possibe).

Thanks for you help
Dick