On Friday September 3 2004 1:44 am, Chadley Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 21:54, Damon Register wrote:
I have installed 9.1 on my new HP P4 and did not notice any performance issues there. Finally this last weekend I installed 9.1 (clean install) on my home server and found it to be painfully slow. This server is an HP with Pentium 200 MHz and 128 MB RAM.
^^^^^ ^^^^^^ Theres your problem! If you try and load XP on that PC it will also be very slow. I don't recommend it but you could try trimming the kernel and the apps that you install if its a server don't use a GUI, Yast does run on the command line. I had the same issue.
Yes........a non-GUI server, it might make using SUSE. XP MANDATES a MINIMUM of a 700Mhz. processor, 256MB of RAM and 40G hard drive (if I remember correctly).
Fred Just to add here; try upgrading your ram to at least 256MB or 512MB
On Friday 03 September 2004 07:49, Fred Miller wrote: preferably, I am running suse9.1 SLE on 512 and another box with SUSe Pro 9,1 Pro with 1 gig of ram, Both PCs have 2.0 gig celerons. They are both faster than any linux distro I have ever used, on these same PCs. I have run RH9, Fedora 1 and 2, mdk 10, Centos (RHEL3), IMpi Linux, Debian (failed due to bandwidth restrictions) and of course knoppix and slack. With the correct mix of hardware SUSe is by far the most advance desktop Linux you will ever use. And it has speed but needs room to run. However if you can't do the upgrade then I would suggest that you manually setup you partitions. Create the swap file first so that it is at the beginning of the drive, make it about 512MB. The reason for this is that unlike a cd the hard drive reads from the outside of the drive first where the speed is faster than the centre. Hence a speed advantage is gained, put your swap file there and you will see a noticeable difference. I do advise with the sencere apology for incorrect info given if any, please feel free to correct my explanations or wording. We should love to be criticised as we learn more from it. Chow for now,
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