[ale] X running excruciatingly slow

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 17 May 2004 09:39 am, Sergio Chaves wrote:
> Is it a celeron machine?
> I read somewhere that X on celeron machines
> need at least 512 Megs RAM with 800+ being
> optimum.

I runs fine for me with 128M RAM.  I can't imagine what you read.

Michael

> 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.