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| Van Chocstraw... |
 Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:49 am |
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uname -a
2.6.27.29-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2009-08-15 17:53:59 +0200 i686 athlon i386
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On this system, 1.3ghz athlon, 2+gig ram Opensuse drags. Boots up ok
until gnome starts, then drags. Gnome Icons take forever to appear. Then
Firefox drags. Scrolling is slow and jerky if it moves. I'm not running
any unnecessary servers. W2K pro and WinME run fast on this system. Why
is Suse slow? Can't be just pae. |
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| Paul J Gans... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:49 am |
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DenverD <spam.trap at (no spam) somewhere.dk> wrote:
Quote: i agree with Mark..kill the beagle and turn off desktop effects..
if that makes it like it should be, then get more horsepower or leave
those things off..
If that fixes it, just don't run beagle. I now kill it during
install by removing it from the list of programs to be loaded.
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| Paul J Gans... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:49 am |
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Mark Draheim <rickcafe.casablanca at (no spam) gmx.net> wrote:
Quote: Van Chocstraw wrote:
uname -a
2.6.27.29-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2009-08-15 17:53:59 +0200 i686 athlon i386
GNU/Linux
On this system, 1.3ghz athlon, 2+gig ram Opensuse drags. Boots up ok
until gnome starts, then drags. Gnome Icons take forever to appear.
Then Firefox drags. Scrolling is slow and jerky if it moves. I'm not
running any unnecessary servers. W2K pro and WinME run fast on this
system. Why is Suse slow? Can't be just pae.
my guess: either an indexer running (the disk led is continously on)
or desktop effects on a slow video chipset
check top in a terminal, its probably that beagle thingy indexing, or
your X server is running on 99% cpu
Is beagle running?
Beyond that I run 11.1 on three machines and it is fine. But
I run KDE not Gnome. One of those machines is a web server.
Can you run "top" to see what is hogging your CPU time?
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| Mark Draheim... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:03 am |
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Van Chocstraw wrote:
Quote: uname -a
2.6.27.29-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2009-08-15 17:53:59 +0200 i686 athlon i386
GNU/Linux
On this system, 1.3ghz athlon, 2+gig ram Opensuse drags. Boots up ok
until gnome starts, then drags. Gnome Icons take forever to appear.
Then Firefox drags. Scrolling is slow and jerky if it moves. I'm not
running any unnecessary servers. W2K pro and WinME run fast on this
system. Why is Suse slow? Can't be just pae.
my guess: either an indexer running (the disk led is continously on)
or desktop effects on a slow video chipset
check top in a terminal, its probably that beagle thingy indexing, or
your X server is running on 99% cpu
cheers
Mark |
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| DenverD... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:16 am |
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i agree with Mark..kill the beagle and turn off desktop effects..
if that makes it like it should be, then get more horsepower or leave
those things off..
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (20090817),
KDE 3.5.7 "release 72-11", openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default
#1 SMP i686 athlon |
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| David Bolt... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:56 am |
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On Friday 09 Oct 2009 08:47, Darklight played with alphabet spaghetti
and left this residue on the plate:
Quote: try taking out 1 gig of ram and remove the pae kernel that kernel is for
machines with 4 gig or more of ram
It's not just for machines with 4GB+ of RAM. The PAE kernel also
enables DEP, data execution prevention[0], which is supposed to reduce
the chances of a buffer overflow being exploited. This kernel appears
to be installed on any system where the processor/chipset supports
either PAE or DEP.
Quote: remove every thing to do with beagle.
Good advice.
Quote: i run 11.1 on my laptop it's 6 years old 2.4Ghz intel cpu 1 gig of ram and
have compiz running. it's not fast but it's good enough.
I run 11.2m8 on my 6yo laptop. It has 1.25GiB RAM and is a Sempron
2800+ running at 1.6GHz and, as with yours, it's still usable even
when running KDE4.
[0] Quite Windows-centric, but this gives the details:
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention>
Regards,
David Bolt
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| houghi... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:42 am |
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David Bolt wrote:
Quote: I run 11.2m8 on my 6yo laptop. It has 1.25GiB RAM and is a Sempron
2800+ running at 1.6GHz and, as with yours, it's still usable even
OK.
Now I know you are lying. ;-)
houghi
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| David Bolt... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:36 am |
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On Friday 09 Oct 2009 18:42, houghi played with alphabet spaghetti and
left this residue on the plate:
Quote: David Bolt wrote:
I run 11.2m8 on my 6yo laptop. It has 1.25GiB RAM and is a Sempron
2800+ running at 1.6GHz and, as with yours, it's still usable even
OK.
when running KDE4.
Now I know you are lying. 
It's not really that bad, and I did see the smiley. Due to the age of
the graphics chipset/laptop, it's not able to handle compositing using
OpenGL as the copmositing type. Swapping to XRender works, although I
do have to check the "Disable functionality checks" checkbox. After
doing that it is quite usable but, it's not a speed-demon and there's
no way I'd even consider turning on all the eye-candy it could support.
I know it would be much faster with a lighter-weight desktop, but I
prefer KDE and I've fiddled with the settings a bit and now KDE4 does
look and feel very much like KDE3 to me. Still some niggles, but
they're nothing major.
Regards,
David Bolt
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| nepo... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:35 am |
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Found this while browsing Linux Format magazine in a store yesterday.
One suggestion for faster booting was to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and
change the timeout to 0. Mine was set at 8 seconds.
Another suggestion was to install a program called Bootchart. Bootchart
is a tool for analysis and visualization of the boot process according to
the article.
Here's another article about it.
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/151496 |
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