On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:13:57 -0500, Don Parris
On Sunday 07 November 2004 19:39, Steve wrote:
Hi, I've just installed 9.2 on my test machine, a 300MHz PII with 256MB of ram. Given the stats of the machine, linux has always been a bit slow, but it's always been usable for me. With 9.2, however, the performance is pathetic. The install took the better part of 3 days (normally this takes me ~2 hours). Installing the software itself took > 15 hours - something that normally takes ~1 hour. With 9.1, the load while idle was ~0. With 9.2, it's between 4 and 6. I installed Suse the same way I've done it for the last 4 years and nothing really special about how I install it (as usual, I choose the "no acpi" option, but that and using the same partition setup is about the only special things I do). Since I haven't heard anybody else complain about this yet, I assume that there's something special about my situation (can't say what, though). Is there some option I missed in the install (something like, don't insert a "while (1);" loop in the kernel :)? Or some way to find out what is sucking up the cpu time (top lists X as the only process getting any significant cpu time).
Thanks, Steve
I've noticed my 1.3 GHz AMD box takes 2:18 from power-on to login screen. From there to settled desktop is nearly another full minute. I could understand that better on my old P-II/350 box. I can't think of anything I'm doing different now than I did on my old box with SUSE 8.0, as far as apps & services are concerned.
Don -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"
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