Problems with RH7.3 system performance

[James McDonald]

Umm guys,

I am running an AMD 1.3GHz with 760 MB RAM.... I am thinking that my 
performance is pretty poor.... this is the out put from top 

Is X supposed to use 284M ( I have turned Xft on )?

Any suggestions?

110 processes: 103 sleeping, 6 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  6.9% user,  5.7% system,  0.1% nice, 87.1% idle
Mem:   742488K av,  705840K used,   36648K free,       0K shrd,   39696K buff
Swap: 1502068K av,    7880K used, 1494188K free                  342404K 
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
22888 james     19   0 41404  40M 22112 R     3.5  5.5   4:56 mozilla-bin
22896 james      9   0 41404  40M 22112 S     0.0  5.5   0:00 mozilla-bin
22897 james      9   0 41404  40M 22112 S     0.0  5.5   0:04 mozilla-bin
22898 james      9   0 41404  40M 22112 S     0.0  5.5   0:00 mozilla-bin
22899 james      9   0 41404  40M 22112 S     0.0  5.5   0:02 mozilla-bin
22900 james      9   0 41404  40M 22112 S     0.0  5.5   0:00 mozilla-bin
 5606 root      13   0  284M  28M  7488 R     1.5  3.8  28:13 X
 5702 james      9   0 20988  20M 11420 S     0.1  2.7   6:42 kdeinit
29331 james      9   0 18700  18M 14496 S     0.1  2.5   0:17 kmail
 5700 james      9   0 13172  12M 11452 S     0.0  1.7   1:10 kdeinit
31097 james      9   0 12832  12M 10432 S     0.0  1.6   3:29 kdeinit
22693 james     10   0 12288  11M 10048 R     0.5  1.6   0:04 kdeinit
31095 james      9   0 11872  11M 10076 S     0.0  1.5   1:47 kdeinit
31552 james     19  19 11324  11M  7672 R N   0.3  1.5  10:12 kpolygon.kss
 5707 james      9   0 11636  11M  9624 S     0.1  1.5   4:21 kdeinit
 5698 james      9   0 11276  10M  9580 S     0.0  1.4   0:20 kdeinit
15637 james      9   0 11268  10M  9848 S     0.0  1.4   0:00 kdeinit
 5694 james      9   0 10740  10M  9496 S     0.0  1.3   0:01 kdeinit
31089 james      9   0 10404 9876  9148 S     0.0  1.3   0:00 kdeinit
31093 james      9   0 10356 9872  8804 S     0.0  1.3   0:00 kdeinit
 5709 james      9   0  9960 9600  8880 S     0.0  1.2   0:00 kdeinit
 5711 james      9   0 10000 9536  8456 S     0.0  1.2   0:01 korgac
31102 james      9   0  9860 9380  8536 S     0.0  1.2   0:45 kdeinit
 1069 xfs        9   0 11076 9328  2140 S     0.0  1.2   1:56 xfs
31105 james      8   0  9692 9172  8168 S     0.0  1.2   0:00 kdeinit
31106 james      9   0  9564 9092  8064 S     0.0  1.2   0:00 korgac
 5675 james      9   0  9416 9056  8348 S     0.0  1.2  11:52 kdeinit
31006 james     12   0  8904 8904  1376 S     1.1  1.1  15:41 Xvnc
 5697 james      9   0  9160 8792  8108 S     0.0  1.1   0:01 kdeinit
29831 james      9   0  9204 8680  8024 S     0.0  1.1   0:00 kdeinit
31551 james      9   0  8608 8608  7324 S     0.0  1.1   0:00 kdesktop_lock
31070 james      9   0  9080 8592  8020 S     0.0  1.1  15:49 kdeinit


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James McDonald
Systems Engineer

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