Gnome performance question

[Bob Smith]

I think the 2.4 MB box has 256MB of RAM, and I know that the 3.1MHz
box has 1GB of RAM, so certainly the second box shouldn't be a hardware
problem.

Ed,

Do you know if additional work is being done on the issue?

Thanks,

-Bob

> 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.
>
>> I thought it's because my poor box,
>
> Your problems likely are.
>
>> but Bob's box is
>> pretty new, is this problem a bug or weakness of GNOME?
>
> Your problem and Bob's are necessarily the same problem.
>
>> 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.
>
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