[ale] X running excruciatingly slow

[jknapka at kneuro.net (Joe Knapka)]

Sergio Chaves <sergio at turbocorp.com> writes:

> Is it a celeron machine?
> I read somewhere that X on celeron machines
> need at least 512 Megs RAM with 800+ being
> optimum.

That's really quite strange.  If I can run X with no trouble at all on
my 200Mhz P2 with 196MB, it's just baffling why a Celeron (running at
perhaps triple the clock speed) would neet so much more RAM. Anyway,
I'm also running X just fine on a Celeron box with 350MB of RAM.

-- Joe

> my 2 cents
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > John Wells wrote:
> >
> >> Michael D. Hirsch said:
> >>
> >>> Could be interrupt problems.  If your mouse is having a conflict,
> >>> it could
> >>> slow things down.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> How would I identify this?  I am still at a loss on this one.  I've
> >> switched mice and keyboards, but same affect.  I booted up to a Win XP
> >> drive in same machine, same mouse and keyboard, and everything worked
> >> perfectly fine, so it's got to be something on the linux side.  I also
> >> upgraded the entire system, X included, to the latest versions from
> >> freshrpms.net...still no luck.
> >
> >
> > If you're having interrupt issues, I expect to see some logging
> > info, probably in /var/log/messages.
> >
> > I'd compare the interrupts between linux and XP.  /proc/intterrupts
> > will show you active interrupts and also identify shared interrupts.
> >
> > I assume XP has some facility for the same as did win9?, but I've
> > not had the need to research it on that virus.
> >
> 
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