On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:28:57 +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote:
Beartooth kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 1. marraskuuta 2004 23:04):
You mean it's supposed to. But switching workspaces takes considerable time -- more to switch to a browser than to the newsreader or a terminal, and more to switch to firefox than to opera. And *everything* works slower if firefox is open than if not
That sounds like your system is running out of available RAM and it's swapping data to disk. What does the command "free" show when you have several workspaces and browsers in use?
[root@localhost root]# free total used free shared buffers cachedMem: 117944 115244 2700 0 6356 33912-/+ buffers/cache: 74976 42968 Swap: 498004 153688 344316 [root@localhost root]