Gnome performance question
Yin Ming
yinming at mdc-ds.com
Thu Sep 30 08:30:45 UTC 2004
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:38:58 -0500
Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> wrote:
> Yin Ming wrote:
> > I got the same problem. My box is very old, the K6-2 400M cpu, 128M
> > SDRAM,
>
> This doesn't meet the minimum requirements for a GUI-based Red Hat
> distribution. 128MB is acceptable for text work but not for Gnome nor
> KDE. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (which uses most of the same core as RHL
> 8) has a minimum requirement of 256MB and 512MB is recommended.
:-(
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:05:03 -0600 (MDT)
> > Bob Smith <bob at netprt.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have RH9, but have noticed the same situation with a Fedora installation.
> >>Both of these installations are "as is," out of the box. The hardware
> >>is a 2.4 GHz Pentium on RH9 and 3.1 GHz Dell Optiplex GX280, respectively.
> >>
> >>There are times when the windowing system comes as close to freezing as
> >>you can get, and then it takes a long time to launch a window or terminal.
>
> This is a known problem and recent kernel releases have made the
> situation better. Not perfect, but better.
>
Thx, but what's the reason? Which part of kernel, or Gnome, or X, block
the system, is it a memory leaking, or a IO blocking?
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殷鸣 <yinming at mdc-ds.com>
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