[CentOS] slow GUI

[Johnny Hughes]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 07:56 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> System:
> 
> PIII 500Mhz
> 128MB memory
> 20GB drive
> 
> Current CentOS 4.2
> Gnome GUI
> 
> The system runs 'idle' at around 70Mb memory used and 4% cpu usage.
> 
> But whenever I go to start a task:
> 
> Start Gedit, Services tool, a Terminal window, Firefox
> 
> It takes a minute or so.  CPU mayyyypeak at 100% briefly then come 
> down.  Memory has yet to exceed 100Mb usage.
> 
> Any pointers of where to look to see why it is slow?
> 
Why it is slow is easy ... RHEL-4 (and therefore CentOS) doesn't work
correctly in GUI mode with less than 256MB RAM.

If you run top and look, you will have lots of SWAP usage ... which is
simulating system memory onto hard drive.  This is VERY slow and makes
things take forever :)

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