Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1125 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/17/12 11:56, Gunnar pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Den 17.05.2012 17:42, skrev James Knott:
> > Gunnar wrote:
> > > Why are my Win XP so much quicker then my 12.1.
> > > The CPU goes to 100% when I starts some thing.
> > > I have the same problem with KDE and Icewm.
> > > In Win XP,there are no delay, I start a program and it start. In
> > > Opensuse, it take nearly 1 min. with no response, everything seems to
> > > have died. Any clues?? Gunnar
> >
> > I have no idea as to the cause/fix, but I have the same experience. My
> > home computer, which ran 11.0 very well, has become a pig with 12. 1 &
> > KDE 4. I have to reboot every week or so to restore performance, but
> > even then, it's nowhere near what I had with 11.0. This is on a 64 bit
> > AMD Athlon 64 4000+ & 3 GB of memory. I don't have Windows on this
> > computer, so I can't compare with it.
>
> My sytem are: AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4 GHZ and 1 gb ram.I have installed
> the 32 bits system, from Linux Format DVD. :-) My Opensuse are to slow
> to used it. I have tried with all the "small" window system, but the are
> all slow. So now I am on my old Win XP. :-((
> Gunnar

I had this experience a couple of weeks ago on my laptop and it turned 
out to be the version of the Nvidia driver installed. Once I rolled back 
to an earlier version all was back to normal.

Please include which graphics card and driver you are using.

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Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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