Features for FC4

[Kim Lux]

Your problem is the 128MB of RAM.  If you watch your swap memory in a
monitor, you'll find that there is a tremendous amount of swapping going
on. Upgrading to 512MB of RAM will make a huge difference.  Linux runs
pretty well on old/slow hardware *as long as it has enough RAM*.

I'm not an advocate of your preloading request.  On your machine I think
it would make things worse, because the preloaded apps are just going to
consume some of your valuable RAM and swap out the rest.

BTW: Another app that got a lot faster is Evolution.  My inbox has
11,000 emails in it and they did something to make it work better with
large inboxes.  




On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 18:17 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> lør, 13.11.2004 kl. 17.24 skrev Kim Lux:
> > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 17:18 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > 
> > > - Openoffice shoulnt use 30 secounds to load the dictionaries. (only
> > > load the default language?)
> > > 
> > > Maybee:
> > > - Preloading of Openoffice and default web browser, to make the system
> > > respond *imediatly* and open those progs.
> > 
> > OO spell checking used to take forever and now it is almost
> > instantaneous.  Kudos to whomever did that.
> > 
> 
> Agreed. Haven't gotten around to install FC3 on my main computer yet...
> But the spell checker *still* takes ages to load in FC2. And OO
> itself... It took five FIVE minutes to start on an 128 MB RAM 500 Mhz
> computer (fc3).
> 
> So preloading firefox and OO when you start gnome, would be a big win.
> It would make the computer *seem* a lot faster/responsive. And that is
> really what counts for most desktop users.
> 
> > OO is getting faster all the time, in my opinion.  In RH8 it was pretty
> > slow. 
> > 
> > BTW: I just love OO.  I use it every day. 
> > 
> 
> Me to. Had to use Word 2003 on friday, and it is lightyears behind OO
> when it comes to styles/object placement :)
> 
> 
-- 
Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc