The Machine Runs Very Slowly with GCC / X / ..
You may have too little real memory. If you have less RAM than all theprograms you're running at once, Linux will swap to your hard disk
instead and thrash horribly. The solution in this case is to not run
so many things at once or buy more memory. You can also reclaim some
memory by compiling and using a kernel with less options configured.
See ("How To Upgrade/Recompile a Kernel.")
You can tell how much memory and swap you're using with the free
command, or by typing:
$ cat /proc/meminfo
If your kernel is configured with a RAM disk, this is probably wasted
space and will cause things to go slowly. Use LILO or rdev to tell the
kernel not to allocate a RAM disk (see the LILO documentation or type
"man rdev").
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