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SubjectRe: 2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> I've been using 2.2.14 since it came out, and it has had a

Me too.

> sluggish feel to it at times. When switching from X to the
> console and back often I have to wait anywhere up to 5-10 seconds

Me too. However, this has always happened, even with 2.0.x kernels.
It didn't happened with the original X that came with Slackware96, but
when I upgraded X then it always started freezing the console for a while
after switching back to X.

Related? i think think so. Kernel problem? I don't think that either. But
I could be wrong. In any case, advices are appreciated.

> up to 5-10 seconds as well for it to open up. It seems as if it
> is pulling it out of swap space or something. X starts up slow

Is the swap actually used ("free/top")? Does hard disk get read (the
drive light)?

i have here pentium 120 / 24 MiB, S3 Trio32 mirocrystal.


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