On Feb 13, 2008 5:35 PM, Masters IT Gmail <mastersit.com at gmail.com> wrote: > I am having the same problem about performance issue, well perhaps it is > because I have slow memory, I have a P4 HT with 256mb DDR 400 and HD 40 > gb, > today I reinstalled the -OS Centos 5.1 final with gnome. I don´t know if > it > is okay to have only 4 megs of ram free. Perhaps I need more ram because I > am using gnome I ask because is the first time I probe linux in my desktop > pc, I note that is acting slow what do you think? > > There are some ways to free up some memory in order to better adjust my os > with a minimum amount of ram like 256mb. This pc is for learning, so I > don´t > know if it deserves buying more memory but your experience is more than > mine. > > Thanks in advance. > > George from Uruguay. George, I'm fairly confident your system is swapping and thereby causing the issue, you can check it out with dstat for example. A old 40 GB harddrive is not improving the situation, I'm sure iostat (part of the sysstat RPM package) will tell you by showing a high await value. You need at least 512 MB to run just Gnome in a resonable paste, you may want to consider some lightweight window manager such as xfce4, blackbox etc. - Nicolas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080213/d638f719/attachment-0004.html>