On Friday 03 September 2004 06:43 am, Damon Register wrote:
Theres your problem! If you try and load XP on that PC it will also be very slow.
Thanks for the answers but I think you all are missing the point. Perhaps I didn't word my question clearly enough. I am aware that this isn't the fastest or newest. I bought it because it was cheap ($25) and I just wanted a server/router. Though it was a bit slow, it worked fine with SuSE 9.0. Are you all saying that the speed issue is likely only because it is and old PC and not because of some error? If so, why is 9.1 SO much slower than 9.0?
I have a couple of P200 - 164MB machines here (not sure of the memory but it's a bit more than 128MB). I installed 9.1 on one of them with the intention of making it a server. it was slow.... However, I rebuilt the kernel and removed a lot of stuff, as well as optimized it for the P200 and it became quite usable.... even to the point of allowing me to start graphics apps thru ssh on a different computer. For a non-gui server, it would probably do quite well but I didn't pursue it because I have other machines I can use. BTW, I think it took well over 24 hours to compile my first cut at a kernel. That's pretty slow....! -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 09/03/04 09:37 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "A vivid and creative mind characterizes you."