You could try Gnome
Also the info in top is given in KDE under the Process Management icon - it
includes top in a much more manageable format.
Things useful in top Top -
1- Processes useing to much CPU, memory, swap.
2 - free memory, used memory
3- try to coralate the amount of free memory to used swap. It may indicate
where bottlenecks are.
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Michael Picco wrote:
>Hi Brian,
>
>What would you recommend as an alternative window manager, KDE perhaps?
>
>Being the newbie that I am, I've never heard of TOP. It seems to give me a lot of info! What should I be on the lookout for when I run it?
>
>Thanks for the tip.
>
>Michael
>
>
>Brian E. Lavender wrote:
>
>> Michael,
>>
>> harry and I are working here on Debian. he says get rid of gnome and enlightenment. Try a different window manager. I would run top and see how much of your
>> resources are being used. i have 128 megs and it seems to get all sucked up with
>> window managers and X.
>>
>> brian
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 09:24:26PM -0700, Michael Picco wrote:
>> > Having had this Multia running for a few days, I'm noticing that any
>> > time I click on something, it seems to take quite a while for the
>> > system to respond. The box has 64Meg of RAM and a 4.3GB HD, which I
>> > had thought would be plenty. It's running Gnome and Enlightenment.
>> > Any ideas of where to look to get it running faster?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Michael
>>
>> --
>> Brian Lavender
>> http://www.brie.com/brian/
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