linux is excessively slow

[Dylan]

Hello,

I am using Mandrake Linux for windows...and everything is slowww....anyway to fix this? It might be that my swap file is too small, so how do i change the swap file>>>>

[vvx]

Linux sucks installed to a vfat partition.. Guess what! Windows sucks installed to an ext2 partition. :)

[Dylan]

um...but could you help?

[debiandude]

What he is politly (or maybe not) you are not going to get good (its probably really crappy) performance using Linux on a non native partition like vfat. If you really want to expirence Linux then you either are gong to sacrifice you windows partition to the linux gods or buy you self a small harddrive to test it out. You could probably get a 2 gig harddrive at a computer show for 15-25 dollars.

[bdg1983]

Could be due to all kinds of reasons.

What are your hardware specs?

Any suggestions at Mandrake's website?

[Craig McPherson]

You can add an extra 32MB of swap space very easily like this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/local/swapfile bs=1048576 count=32

mkswap /usr/local/swapfile

swapon /usr/local/swapfile

echo "/usr/local/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

Then run the "free" command and you'll see that you have 32MB more swap space than you did before.