redhat 7.3

[lanvicky]

This is the first time I installed linux redhat 7.3 on a clean hard disk and had set the partition formatting to automatic. I was installing in GUI mode the packages installed by me were GDNOME and KDE (workstation). The installation was successful and I am using redhat 7.3 . The problem is its very very slow. The red light of the hard disk just keeps on glowing and the windows which I open are too slow. Earlier I had windows 2000 professional running on the very same machine which was very fast and good.
My system configuration is as follows :
Celeron 850
Ram 64 MB
Intel 810 chipset with onboard vga and sound
4.3 GB hard disk
multimedia

Can someone plz tell me what exactly is the problem. Why is redhat 7.3 running so slow ??????
Lanvicky

[CrashTestDummy9]

Originally posted by lanvicky
This is the first time I installed linux redhat 7.3 on a clean hard disk and had set the partition formatting to automatic. I was installing in GUI mode the packages installed by me were GDNOME and KDE (workstation). The installation was successful and I am using redhat 7.3 . The problem is its very very slow. The red light of the hard disk just keeps on glowing and the windows which I open are too slow. Earlier I had windows 2000 professional running on the very same machine which was very fast and good.
My system configuration is as follows :
Celeron 850
Ram 64 MB
Intel 810 chipset with onboard vga and sound
4.3 GB hard disk
multimedia

Can someone plz tell me what exactly is the problem. Why is redhat 7.3 running so slow ??????
Lanvicky Its actually not Redhat that is slow . Its the window managers that you are using . KDE and GNome need a good bit of memory to run effectively and 64mb of ram is a little skinny for either one of them . There are some fellas on here who can point you to other window managers that will run fine with 64mb of ram . The other thing slowing you down is the video card,or onboard video , whichever applies to you .

[hlrguy]

Originally posted by lanvicky
This is the first time I installed linux redhat 7.3 on a clean hard disk and had set the partition formatting to automatic. I was installing in GUI mode the packages installed by me were GDNOME and KDE (workstation). The installation was successful and I am using redhat 7.3 . The problem is its very very slow. The red light of the hard disk just keeps on glowing and the windows which I open are too slow. Earlier I had windows 2000 professional running on the very same machine which was very fast and good.
My system configuration is as follows :
Celeron 850
Ram 64 MB
Intel 810 chipset with onboard vga and sound
4.3 GB hard disk
multimedia

Can someone plz tell me what exactly is the problem. Why is redhat 7.3 running so slow ??????
Lanvicky

You need to add some ram. The system is using swap most of the time and is executing programs by swapping them from the hard disk to memory to hard disk. Memory is very cheap so you can add more, or as suggested, get a lighter window manager.

Run ktop and it will tell you all that is running, and the performance tab
will show how much swap is in use. I attached a screenshot with mine. note the 0 swap. 0 is good.

hlrguy

[hlrguy]

The system is probably starting every service known to man at startup. You can shutdown the ones that are not needed. Do this in an xterm

ps -ef > allproc.txt and post allproc.txt back to the forum. I and others can tell you which processes don't need to start automatically on your system. I will have to remember the command to remove them from startup, but I am sure others know off the top of their head.

hlrguy