On 7/25/07, Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am still runnig Redhat 9 box with sendmail and squid. It is quite slow. It > has only 128 MB RAM. So I upgraded it to 512 MB RAM. Now, It is running with > 512 MB RAM. But, It is still slow. No progress has been achived. Some users > say it is slower than before. Actually, I also have noticed it is NOW SLOWER > than before. WHY IS THAT? You _do_ realize that this list is for a different distribution of Linux? As fustrated as you might be, we will be even more fustrated if you ask us to provide answers to your questions without giving us all the relevant data for us to make our analysis. We do not know why you are still using RH9, even I stopped using it a year ago. If your machine's cpu is one of the slow ones, increasing ram is only going to make it go maginally faster. What is the output of free and top both before and after the ram increase? You need to find out where the bottleneck is and tell us. > > SHOULD I NEED TO RECOMPILE THE KERNEL as I installed a new 512 MB RAM ? How should we know? I am tempted to say no as I think that machines that can handle 128MB should also be able to handle 512MB ram. > > help needed? I can see that. With subject lines like that, I usually turn on the sarcasm key on my keyboard. Lets try and be less dramatic in future. ne... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Certified: 75% bastard, 42% of which is tard. http://www.thespark.com/bastardtest Now accepting personal mail for GMail invites.