Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Alexandr Malusek <Alexandr.Malusek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

linuxjim <linuxjim@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Here are some numbers from my 550 MHz PIII with a 5400 rpm IDE disk:
>>
>> - boot to runlevel 5 with kdm: 1 min 36 s
>> - start of a KDE session: 1 min 5 s (it includes 15 s for
>>   applications like xmms, xosview, ...)
>> - Install or remove software module of YaST2: 40 s
>>
>> It takes 3-4 s to open a shell (konsole) window.
>
> On my machine it takes about 37 seconds for the shell to come up.

I would expect 6 s.  How much memory do you have?  I have 256 MiB RAM
which is quite sufficient for web surfing and e-mail.  "vmstat 1" will
tell you if the machine is swapping (or paging).

Also check /var/log/messages for messages concerning problems with
DMA.  I've seen several computers where the default 2.6 kernel in SUSE
9.1 had severe problems with DMA when a CD unit was used.  They slowed
down extremely, sometimes a reboot was necessary.

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A.M.