tips for speeding up xwindows

somebitch · #1 25th October 2009, 12:02 AM

I notice that my machine is quite slow since I reinstalled. I was previously running FC6 and things were a lot better.

What can I do to get rid of this desktop lag? I am running this on a p4 1.3ghz with 384 MB ram. Not the best and it's from the 90s but it works. I didn't install the office packages or KDE. Just a basic install.

I notice that my load averages are consistently higher than they were on my FC6 machine.

jpollard · #2 25th October 2009, 12:43 AM

Upgrade? I'm using Fedora 11.

I'm running on an old PIII (750MHz) laptop with 512M... The only problem I have was likely caused by a lightning
that took out the winmodem (no loss), but may have caused other problems.

Operationally, X is plenty fast... except when my timer goes nuts.

Nokia · #3 25th October 2009, 12:49 AM

For 384MB ram perhaps XFCE would be better than Gnome. Also, did you apply the latest updates ?

Code:

su
yum update --enablerepo=u*g -v
reboot