Subj : LINUX the Cross Roads
To   : Spaceman Spiff
From : Mbr
Date : Thu Jan 06 2005 09:54 am

  Re: LINUX the Cross Roads
  By: Spaceman Spiff to All on Wed Jan 05 2005 08:08 pm


 > I am not sure if it is the slowness of the machine or the fact that there is
 > such little free space on the Hard drive that machine is slowing because it
 > doing a virtual memory thing on the hard drive?  Does Linux use a virtual
 > memory thing like Windows and the MAC OS?

 > Anyway...I guess I have a lot to learn, but it looks pretty cool and there a
 > lots of resources.

yeah linux doesn't do it the same way.. but it uses a swap partition called a 
Swap Drive. and it's usually around doubled the size of the phyiscal ram. if 
you have 128meg of ram the swawp is usually 256ish

as for the slowness.. that's prolly due to the super slow hd. if it's a 1.2 
gig it's prolly one of those Conner drives *just a guess* or it could be a 
bigfoot drive. dunno without looking at it. how much memory did you say the 
machine actually have and how much in the way of mhz is the machine? 'cause 
mandrake 10.1 is kinda resource hungry.. espesially if you're using the KDE 
desktop
i would try switching to either an older version of mandrake or another 
distro. and maybe even switch desktop enviroments from KDE to gnome er 
somethin




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