Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2? My machine definitely feels slower. No matter which desktop (or window manager) I use, everything just seems to be a bit sluggish as compared to SuSE 8.1. Watching DVDs with Xine or Ogle, while working fine on 8.1, shows jerky, choppy playback under 8.2. And, yes, DMA is enabled for the DVD drive. Has anyone else come across this? If so, how did you solve the problem? Thanks, Rick
On Monday 12 May 2003 9:38 am, Rick Friedman wrote:
Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2? My machine definitely feels slower. No matter which desktop (or window manager) I use, everything just seems to be a bit sluggish as compared to SuSE 8.1.
Watching DVDs with Xine or Ogle, while working fine on 8.1, shows jerky, choppy playback under 8.2. And, yes, DMA is enabled for the DVD drive.
Has anyone else come across this? If so, how did you solve the problem?
Thanks, Rick
I upgraded (full install) 4 machines without problems but the last one was totally weird. Windows would take a long time to open. I installed Staroffice 6.0 and it would take about 5 minutes to come up, and the window would sit there for a couple of minutes as just a frame, with the background showing in the middle of the frame. I did the following: 1) Changed setiathome to a nice=19 (the lowest priority). Yet on 8.0 I never had the nice value set at all and didn't notice any problem. 2) Recompiled the kernel to eliminate stuff I didn't need. Don't really know what cured the problem but it seems to be working much better now. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 05/12/03 09:56 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "What's a thousand dollars? mere chicken feed. A `poultry' matter." - Groucho Marx
Dear Rick, Just the opposite here. Two machines and they both feel much snappier. PeterB On Monday 12 May 2003 08:38, Rick Friedman wrote:
Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2? My machine definitely feels slower. No matter which desktop (or window manager) I use, everything just seems to be a bit sluggish as compared to SuSE 8.1.
Watching DVDs with Xine or Ogle, while working fine on 8.1, shows jerky, choppy playback under 8.2. And, yes, DMA is enabled for the DVD drive.
Has anyone else come across this? If so, how did you solve the problem?
Thanks, Rick
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On Monday 12 May 2003 16:05, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Dear Rick,
Just the opposite here. Two machines and they both feel much snappier.
PeterB
Me too, I think 8.2 feels slightly faster. Best Fergus
On Monday 12 May 2003 08:38, Rick Friedman wrote:
Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2? My machine definitely feels slower. No matter which desktop (or window manager) I use, everything just seems to be a bit sluggish as compared to SuSE 8.1.
Watching DVDs with Xine or Ogle, while working fine on 8.1, shows jerky, choppy playback under 8.2. And, yes, DMA is enabled for the DVD drive.
Has anyone else come across this? If so, how did you solve the problem?
Thanks, Rick
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On Monday 12 May 2003 08:38, Rick Friedman wrote:
Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2? My machine definitely feels slower. No matter which desktop (or window manager) I use, everything just seems to be a bit sluggish as compared to SuSE 8.1. Well,
the kernel on Suse 8.2 has the new scheduling algorythm, which (IIRC) gives more CPU to active interactive processes [i.e. interactive process that have keyboard/mouse focus] as well as a bunch of other stuff. The seti problem someone mentioned might be related to that. At any rate, a different scheduler might mean that some setups indeed are slower now ... Alternatively, doublecheck to see that - the amount of RAm in your box is correctly detected - DMA on your IDE disks is correctly set - You haven't enabled some extra processesin your startup that happen to eat a lot of CPU (top is your friend here) If you want some more help, it would help if we could have some more info on your system (laptop ? desktop ? CPU, which suse kernel, amount of ram, video board &c &c &c ....) Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone :+31-10.280.1515 Global IT Support manager Direct:+31-10.280.1539 Jason Geosystems BV Fax :+31-10.280.1511 (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.
On Monday 12 May 2003 13:29 pm, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
On Monday 12 May 2003 08:38, Rick Friedman wrote:
Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2? My machine definitely feels slower. No matter which desktop (or window manager) I use, everything just seems to be a bit sluggish as compared to SuSE 8.1.
Well, the kernel on Suse 8.2 has the new scheduling algorythm, which (IIRC) gives more CPU to active interactive processes [i.e. interactive process that have keyboard/mouse focus] as well as a bunch of other stuff.
The seti problem someone mentioned might be related to that.
It might, with the exception that I was running a 2.4.20 vanilla kernel with my 8.0 release and didn't have any problems. So unless SuSE added some patches that aren't in 2.4.20, I don't think that's an issue. And I didn't have any issues on 4 out of the 5 machines I did a fresh install on.
At any rate, a different scheduler might mean that some setups indeed are slower now ...
Alternatively, doublecheck to see that - the amount of RAm in your box is correctly detected - DMA on your IDE disks is correctly set - You haven't enabled some extra processesin your startup that happen to eat a lot of CPU (top is your friend here)
If you want some more help, it would help if we could have some more info on your system (laptop ? desktop ? CPU, which suse kernel, amount of ram, video board &c &c &c ....)
Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone :+31-10.280.1515 Global IT Support manager Direct:+31-10.280.1539 Jason Geosystems BV Fax :+31-10.280.1511 (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands
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Hi there,
I have upgraded two systems from 8.0 to 8.2 and both seem faster. This is most noticeable with regards to Gnome v2 as compared to v1.
Kind regards,
Simon
Rick Friedman wrote:
| Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when
| upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2? My machine definitely feels slower. No matter
| which desktop (or window manager) I use, everything just seems to be a
| bit sluggish as compared to SuSE 8.1.
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| Watching DVDs with Xine or Ogle, while working fine on 8.1, shows jerky,
| choppy playback under 8.2. And, yes, DMA is enabled for the DVD drive.
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| Has anyone else come across this? If so, how did you solve the problem?
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| Thanks,
| Rick
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On Mon, 12 May 2003 16:51:03 +0100
Simon Heaton
Kind regards,
Simon
Rick Friedman wrote: | Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when | upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2? My machine definitely feels slower. No matter | which desktop (or window manager) I use, everything just seems to be a | bit sluggish as compared to SuSE 8.1. | | Watching DVDs with Xine or Ogle, while working fine on 8.1, shows jerky, | choppy playback under 8.2. And, yes, DMA is enabled for the DVD drive. | | Has anyone else come across this? If so, how did you solve the problem? | | Thanks, | Rick
I have upgraded my box as well as two IBM thinkpads -- all 3 seem to have better performance. I did do a fresh install on all 3 though saving only the settings in the /home directories. Did you just upgrade from the prior version? -- Mark Registered Linux User #219700 http://counter.li.org "The kind of person who always insists on his way of seeing things can never learn anything from anyone." Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
On Dilluns 12 Maig 2003 15:38, Rick Friedman wrote:
Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2?
Did you used apt for upgrading? I also noticed a HUGE slowdown using the kernel that it installed, with a kernel compiled by myself there is no slowdown In example, doing hdparm -T /dev/md0 (tests disk cache read, not disk speed but memory) it reports 40 Mb/s!!!! when normally it reports 200 Mb/s.
On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 09:38, Rick Friedman wrote:
Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2? My machine definitely feels slower. No matter which desktop (or window manager) I use, everything just seems to be a bit sluggish as compared to SuSE 8.1.
Watching DVDs with Xine or Ogle, while working fine on 8.1, shows jerky, choppy playback under 8.2. And, yes, DMA is enabled for the DVD drive.
Has anyone else come across this? If so, how did you solve the problem?
Thanks, Rick
Definitely. I went from 8.1 to 8.2 and while I like 8.2 better I find it much slower. I use kde and the graphical refresh is slow. It seems to speed up after the first try. I've been trying to find something which might diagnose a particularly misbehaving program - so far without success. Anybody know what's the problem? Cheers, Serge
Dear Serge, Here all three 8.2 installs yielded noticably faster systems, so I recommend that you DO dig deeper. Most others on the list have stated they think 8.2 is faster as well. PeterB On Wednesday 14 May 2003 22:50, Serge Naggar wrote:
On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 09:38, Rick Friedman wrote:
Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the performance of their machine when upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2? My machine definitely feels slower. No matter which desktop (or window manager) I use, everything just seems to be a bit sluggish as compared to SuSE 8.1.
Watching DVDs with Xine or Ogle, while working fine on 8.1, shows jerky, choppy playback under 8.2. And, yes, DMA is enabled for the DVD drive.
Has anyone else come across this? If so, how did you solve the problem?
Thanks, Rick
Definitely.
I went from 8.1 to 8.2 and while I like 8.2 better I find it much slower. I use kde and the graphical refresh is slow. It seems to speed up after the first try.
I've been trying to find something which might diagnose a particularly misbehaving program - so far without success.
Anybody know what's the problem?
Cheers,
Serge
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