very slow X sessions on 5.2-RC2

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

On Wed, 18.02.2004 at 00:29:51 -0500, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote:
> though, I see an option that says allocate 8MB for graphics (This is a
> DELL 2400, in case it helps). I am not sure which one is really
> correct here and how much memory is being "shared" for the graphics. I

This means, that only 8MB are available to the graphics card. Depending
on your resolution and color depth, this might be a bit to insufficent.
Try raising this to 16MB or 32MB.

> The kernel is quite similar to GENERIC, except that practically all
> SCSI and wi stuff is out. I am not using ULE or KSE or anything. Just
> whatever was default with 5.2-RC2. I am also running KDE 3.2. I know
> that my machine itself can do run quite fast, as is evident when I
> compile ports. I have never compiled 150 ports in such a short time
> before. It only seems like the graphics part is sooo slow. Maybe I
> should just get more memory, but I would like to confirm that that is
> the case.

Well, 2.5GHz and only 256MB is not nearly balanced. You should have at
least 1/3 or 1/2 of clock rate in RAM. That means, you should go for at
least 768MB better 1GB.

> Swap: 1024M Total, 181M Used, 843M Free, 17% Inuse
> Swap: 1024M Total, 181M Used, 843M Free, 17% Inuse
> Swap: 1024M Total, 274M Used, 749M Free, 26% Inuse
> Swap: 1024M Total, 328M Used, 696M Free, 32% Inuse

I have 384MB RAM in my Celeron 900 and rarely use swap. Sometimes I wish
I could put at least 512MB of RAM inside this BX Board...

Running a P4 at 2.5GHz with only 256MB RAM, what's the point?

Ulrich Spörlein
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