Martin Schlander wrote:
Mandag den 25. maj 2009 10:20:19 skrev Stephan Kulow:
Am Montag 25 Mai 2009 schrieb Martin Schlander:
What I did notice was that on a cold start of for example Firefox or Systemsettings in openSUSE there's 3-5 secs of intense disk activity, while in Mandriva they'd just pop right up without any (audible) disk activity - on the same hardware with 1 gig of ram. Hmm, your openSUSE is installed from scratch too? Because updated suses are always slower than installed. That's unfortunate, but even for ext4 there doesn't exist a reliable defrag tool yet ;(
I always do fresh install. However I don't format /home, just do some "manual" cleanup. But this particular laptop I had only owned for about 4 months at that time, and I don't use it very much and there's tons of free space on it. So I don't think it could have been too fragmented.
And the application startup difference is really huge, the first time I started Firefox on Mandriva I was litterally in disbelief thinking "what the f...?!?" .. usually starting Firefox means it's time to go get some coffee.
Even on kubuntu, Fedora, etc. running as VM's under VirtualBox, firefox starts up in a fraction of the time it takes under native openSUSE. Something of long standing is at the root of these performance hits and it should be possible to have 2 similar boxes with openSUSE on one and another distro on the other, that way it should be possible to find the bottlenecks. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org