[oclug] upgrade blues

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Have you verifed that swap is enabled?
use the swapon command:
Ex:
# swapon -s
Filename                        Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/hda2                       partition       240964  107608  -1

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Jeff Brown
brownj-oclug at ack.ca

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, olga streltchenko wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I've got an issue I need help with. I have a no-name desktop (300-odd
> MHz CPU, 512 MGb memory) that ran RedHat 7.3 pretty well. So one day I
> decided to upgrade to RedHat 9, and this is when my troubles strarted.
>
> First of all, it's unbearably slow now. Especially web browsing.
> Many other problems, like KsCD doesn't make sounds (while mp3 files play
> just fine), "Add/Remove Applicatications" crushes all the time, etc.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to address the situation?
> I guess, I'd gladly go back to 7.3, but I'm not sure if I can go this
> without wiping everything out on the hard drive.
>
> Thanks,
> Olga.
>
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