[Wolves] I'm back..trying again.

Sean Spencer sean_spencer at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Jul 3 10:58:39 BST 2005


On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 10:15 +0100, David Goodwin wrote:
> > Firstly - I let the installer Auto allocate the whole drive (30gb).. not
> > sure how I check now how much swp space has been allocated :(
> > 
> 
> Open a terminal and type in "free -m"
> 
> > Seems even the mighty Firefox is also considerably slower than on say
> > Windows. I don't want to sound like I'm flaming Linux here - I'm not.
> > Its probably more to do with my setup than anything; or just the fact
> 
> You might also want to check that you have DMA turned on - run "hdparam /dev/hda"
> 
> David.
> 

Just slotted another 256mb RAM in :

free -m

             total       used       free     shared    buffers    cached
Mem:           495        305        189          0         15       172
-/+ buffers/cache:        118        377
Swap:          511          0        511

hdparam not found (tried with SU as well)

Thanks for your reply.




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