On Thursday 24 June 2004 8:12 pm, BandiPat wrote:
On Thursday 24 June 2004 07:34 pm, linuxjim wrote:
Greetings all,
I upgraded one of my 8.2 boxes to 9.1, and expected to find 9.1 a bit faster than the older version. So far that ain't happening. I did the upgrade, not fresh install. I had to clear out some older programs to eliminate dependencies, but other than that all seem to go fine.
It boots in about the same amount of time, till it gets to the login screen. After that the login process is much slower, when KDE gets to the desktop, it takes several minutes before it is usable. The desktop graphic shows as to the desktop icons, but the menu bar does not show for several minutes. When it does, the little icons by the clock such as volume, susewatcher etc don't show for another minute or two. During all this time clicking on any menu does nothing, until KDE finishes initializing.
After that all seems OK, but Yast is very very slow, much slower than in 8.2, which was already slow.
The machine itself is an older AMD K6-2 300mhz, so I know it is not a fast box at all, but I really did hope to see some speed improvements with 9.1 and the new kernel.
The only thing I changed before the upgrade was the monitor, nothing else.
Any ideas as to what and where to look would be much appreciated.
Jim Flanagan
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Jim, I know this isn't going to give you many answers, except to compare a fresh install to an upgrade, but I installed 9.1 on a user's machine and find it to be comparable or better than previous versions. The machine is a 533mhz Celeron, probably comparable to your K6 300 in speed. This machine has an old non-dma 7.5gb hard drive too!
So, what do you think, leftovers from your 8.2?
Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
Yeah, I thought of doing a new install, but decided that I can always do that later. Wanted to try to see if the upgrade would work. So far on this slow CPU it is not enjoyable. It does work, but too slow. I was thinking on upgrading this box to an Athlon 2000 or 2500 without spending too much dinero, and plan to do a fresh install then, but really I wanted to see what speed gains 9.1 would add to my existing setup. So far it is much slower. Will try some of the other suggestions in the thread. Thanks, Jim F