"John P. Looney" wrote:
>> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:56:05AM -0400, Mernagh_Will at emc.com mentioned:
> > Okay I have resently installed TurboLinux on my Laptop and it is very slow
> > If I have a terminal open and then try to run netscape or even just another
> > termonal it logs me out somtimes. I have Linux 6.0 on my PC in college and
> > that is very fast why is it turbo slow on my laptop. I have an AMD 450 with
> > 32M ram 4M for video
> > Should I just reinstall Linux instead of turbolinux
>> That probably won't help. Unfortunatly, these days, netscape itself uses
> 35MB of RAM, so the problem is most likely that you don't have enough
> memory to run a web browser.
It's possible that he hasn't got any swap space installed...
Will, can you give us the output of 'df' please, to see if you've
got any swap space set up for the system?
Regards,
Vin
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