Did you upgrade your kernel outside of the package management? Because no 3.3.6 kernel is listed as installed just the stock kernel.

Post apart from that the output of:

GJones wrote:KDE takes 20+ seconds to start when cached.

It's probably not anymore (completely) cached then due to lack of space.

What about just adding some more RAM to the machine? It's relatively cheap and has quite an impact on caching and speed in general.

My suspicion is that a lot of this is due to Linux using thousands of tiny shared libraries scattered all over the disk - unlike Windows, which uses larger binaries. The shared libraries should actually have a positive impact. While they might be scattered over the disk they only need to be loaded ...

The chroot-installer I wrote could be an option as well: http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=3374 The downside is that it justs puts the file in the directory you tell it. It doesn't handle partitioning. As it doesn't care about the partitions and works on a filesystem level, the f...

IOW what I've read about paging vs. swapping is also wrong? Paging: memory management strategy, all memory is divided into pages. For example when starting an application virtual addresses are assigned for each "block" of application data (actually that works for any file with the mmap sy...

1/ Sorry, no changes with it after restart. You must be kidding... It doesn't seem so. Maybe he's going to try this as well: kill -9 $(ps -eo pid | grep -v PID) Unfortunately reversing the PID order, which seemed right at first, was a bad idea because it kllled kill first. A little explanation if y...

cat /proc/asound/version returns Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23 . isn't it version of alsa? btw, how to solve the sound problem? Yes, probably that's the right version. But your system is most probably not in sync with the repository (which distrowatch generally references)...

Why shouldn't it? If the kernel decides by some algorithm that a page needs to be replaced there are two options: drop the page, swap it out. The decision depends on swappiness and the kind of data. i.e. application data can never be dropped. But for example cache data or some file mapped into memor...

maspai wrote:13.37 has 1.0.23, although it says 1.0.24 in distrowatch

But distrowatch is right: