Mandrake is starting to get Sluggish

[seeker22]

I installed mandrake 8 about 24 hours ago and it was pretty fast then not really fast but now it is starting to get sluggish and i've even rebooted doesn't seem to help. I haven't done a whole lot to it, I installed a couple programs and installed xinetd and identd. some other stuff can anyone give me some tips or tweaks that I could do to improve performance? thanks!

[seeker22]

Um,well I just noticed one thing, mandrake didn't setup a swap partition. ugh last time I use the recomended install. I didn't notice it till I opened partition magic. so I am wondering could I just resize it in windows with partition magic and put a swap in there with that? would it know the swap partition is there after its been installed with out one? and if so how much space should I give it? I have 128 megs of ram. and about.. 700 mb free on the partition

[lsibn]

I wouldn't resize the partition if I were you. I'd just make a swap file:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmem bs=1M count=128

(count=128 will make a 128M swap file).

Then run
mkswap /vmem
swapon /vmem

And if you ever reboot, and it doesn't automatically remount the swap space, you can add this to /etc/fstab (which in theory will force it to mount at boot):
/vmem none swap defaults 0 0

and then run mount -a. You should have swap space again. IF you do not, you should delete this line from fstab. I'm pretty sure it's correct, but just in case it's not, you don't want to leave it there.

[Linux-Gnostic]

Originally posted by seeker22:
<STRONG>I installed mandrake 8 about 24 hours ago </STRONG>

Gosh! You beat me by 12 hours at least!

If you find it sluggish, imagine how I feel:
- Pentium-S 120MHZ (and you?)
- 32MB RAM
- 2MB video RAM
But a nice swap partition (aroud 500MB)

[killerasp]

i have a 900mhz with 512 ram. I tried mandrake 8.0 and it was chugging like no other. Its because of Nautilus. I adds on about 20 process to you workload and just slows everything down. I stopped using Nautilus and used gmc and stopped using mandrake 8.0 all together.

[seeker22]

Ok well I had a bunch of probs so I just decided to just reinstall I backed up my home folder and made a swap its alot better now! but its still kinda slow..but not like it was before! Yeah I am not using gnome with that file manager it is very slow im using kde and konqueror.. its alot better now tho but I still would like to know how to tweak it more I hard alot of people tweaking it for better performance