Subject: Re: RedHat8
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 23:39:08 AKST
Well, the whole idea was to get my WPC11 working. I did by-the-way Fielder.
I have yet to complie a kernel that works...So, any other ideas?
Adam
On Sunday 23 February 2003 11:38 pm, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> I think you'd be better off backing down to something with the 2.2
> kernel series. The 2.4 kernel is a memory hog. If you don't have at
> least 128 MB of ram, it spends all it's time swapping stuff on and off
> the hard drive, and its not like that thing has udma drives to make that
> go at a reasonable pace.
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
> On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 13:36, Adam Elkins wrote:
> > I've installed RH8 on a rather less than qualified laptop. (p166 64Mb
> > ram) It's ungodly slow...What are some things I can do to speed it up?
> > I'm already using BlackBox, and that helped a bit. I've shut down all the
> > daemons I never use (sendmail, lpr ect...), But It's still uberslow...
> >
> > Adam
> >
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