SO refusing to start

[Net Llama!]

On 02/09/04 18:18, Joel Hammer wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:21PM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
>>I get 15 seconds until the progress box shows, and then an additional 20
>>seconds until the editor is up. This when running KDE and Evolution at
>>the same time on:
>>
>>	1.4 GHz P4 with 256 MB RAM and oddles of swap.
>>
>>The start a second time takes 15 seconds.
>>
>>Oddly, all my windows seems to be slow to start lately. It is not a DNS
>>thing (as I can see) as I can resolve an address immediately. I suspect
>>too little RAM. But the slowness did not come about after any obvious
>>upgrade. This is on an up-to-date Gentoo system. No funny optimizations.j
>>My wife is starting to make snide remarks...
> 
> 
> 
> With SO 7, a cold start is 10 secs, a repeat start is
> 6 secs.  
> 
> I have a cheap Duron 1 GHz with 645 megs. (Memory is cheap

How do you get 645MB of RAM?  RAM is usually in powers of 2.

> these days.)
> 
> Is is possible that all that swap memory is slowing
> things down?

All of what swap memory?  What does free show you?

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