Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:46:47 +0100 From: Ulrich Spoerlein <q@uni.de> To: Kaarthik Sivakumar <kaarthik@comcast.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: very slow X sessions on 5.2-RC2 Message-ID: <20040219194647.GA781@galgenberg.net> In-Reply-To: <868yj1aran.fsf@comcast.net> References: <868yj1aran.fsf@comcast.net>
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--8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Sp=F6rlein --=20 PGP Key ID: F0DB9F44 Get it while it's hot! PGP Fingerprint: F1CE D062 0CA9 ADE3 349B 2FE8 980A C6B5 F0DB 9F44 I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFANRKnmArGtfDbn0QRAoT2AKCvphU2lHGcyOvyOAIPV3OnmIB72gCfWNne zeXJAHn6zIWbhUdWimrK/Rw= =c+PE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+--
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