Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 31 May 2003 7:48 am, H du Plooy wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 05:04, Marian Routh wrote:
> > There have been quite a few posts on the slowness of OO in SuSE 8.2.
> > It would be interesting to see what, if anything, all of you have in
> > common because I'm running OO w/SuSE 8.2 and it is perfectly
> > responsive
>
> The problem is not that OO is just slow - it isn't.  The problem is
> that OO is unusuably slow when setiathome isrunning (even if seti's
> nice is set quite high).  This isn't so unusual, until you consider
> that it is only in SuSE 8.2 that this seems to be a problem.  I had
> seti going at full blast 24/7 in SuSE 8.0 and 8.1 (and some other
> distros) and had no problem running OO.  Someone else mentioned it
> worked fine on Libranet (debian) too.
>
> So it seems there is a problem when using seti, OO and SuSE 8.2
> together.
>
> BTW, I compiled my kernel from the SuSE sources, and it didn't make
> any difference, although my desktop does seem a little quicker than
> before in general.  I'll try a vanilla kernel when I find time, but I
> don't really feel like all the hoops I have to jump through to get
> everything going on a vanilla kenel.
>

Don't bother trying the vanilla kernel unless you have:

1) Patches for xfs (if you're using xfs)
2) Patches to allow the 2.4.20 kernel to compile under gcc 3.3

Anyone know where (2) is?





> Hans
>
> > . It
> > does take a tiny bit of time to open (a few seconds), but I can't
> > see that any of the OO components behave differently than any other
> > app - speedy. So it must be something that is different on the
> > systems experiencing the slowness. I agree that it probably isn't an
> > OO issue because the OO code you're running and I'm running is the
> > same (I'm using the OO that came with 8.2 and assume you are, too).
> > I clean-installed 8.2, using the standard AMD kernel that came with
> > the distro, ACPI off, and no tweaks. Very standard all the way
> > around. I don't run any distributed computing clients like Seti, so
> > maybe that's it? What about the graphics cards involved - could the
> > difficulty be coming from there perhaps? Mine is a Geforce 2 Ultra
> > 64MB.
> >
> > Cheers and good luck,
> >
> > Malke
> > --
> > Elephant Boy Computers
> > www.elephantboycomputers.com
> > Don't Panic!

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx  Bellaire, MI         05/31/03 
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