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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> A year ago, I was using a 1999 Dell (128 megs RAM, 450 mhz PIII) as my |
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>main machine. I still have it around as my emergency backup. KDE |
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>"runs" (would you believe crawls) painfully slowly on that machine. |
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>Using blackbox plus fbpanel, it's perfectly OK for most stuff, except |
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>that it drops frames on "internet TV" and working with 2560x1920 digital |
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>photos in Gimp is "leisurely". On my AMDK8, in 32-bit mode, it screams. |
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I have ran a old 400MHz machine with 128MBs of ram before. If you can |
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get some more ram in there, it will run a lot faster. It is the ram |
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more than the CPU that is holding you back speed wise. I put in another |
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128MBs and the speed was about three times faster. I had the same issue |
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with a AMD 800Mhz machine with 128MBs. I just added 64MBs to it and it |
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was a lot faster. I increased the 800MHz machine to about 300MBs later |
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on. It helped some but not a lot. I just happened to get a system that |
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didn't work but had some ram in it. |
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I suspect KDE, and the kernel, needs about 200MBs together to run |
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efficiently. This is based on my experience. I would not try to run a |
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system with 128MBs again, unless I had too. |
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Just a thought. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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Let's see if I can send email tonight. < says prayer > |
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