Will HDD install work better for me than USB flash drive?

[johnheav]

I got Puppy installed to a flash drive, and it works fine, but is very sluggish. Watching any video, whether online, DVD, etc.,.....is extremely jerky, and the video/audio are not synched. I'm on a Dell Pentium Mobile/1.6 gHz.

Would this likely be better if I install to the hard drive, or would Puppy likely behave the same? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance....

-john

[linus1972]

Your RAM may be running out, you don't have a swapfile/swap partition on your hd, or maybe the usb rw speed is slow(but puppy should be in RAM, not accessing usb).

How much ram do you have?

[mikeb]

1.6 gHz. should have no problem.
Are you running Xorg or Xvesa?
Is video acceleration enabled...look for xvideo when you run the gxine setup wizard .

Flash stick is very unlikely to affect performance...only program launch times....we have a 933mhz machine with no hard drive and usb 1.1 and it plays smoothly.

Run htop..see if anything is hogging the cpu.

mike