Stephan Kulow wrote:
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 ;(
It doesn't matter whether it's a new install or the result of a progressive update. I have 6 boxes currently running, 4 are updated boxes and 2 are new 11.1 installs upgraded to 11.2 M1 and at no stage have I noticed a change. Whatever happens is consistent, down to the same errors on an upgrade. For a humdinger see bug #487060 which came on in 11.2 Alpha0 a few days before Milestone1 - a number of applications get stuck when run as root locally, but run across the network as root with ssh -X and it's the same on all my x86_64 boxes and the one x86 box I'm running.
And what would be interesting to know if this happens also in a virtual machine. If so, it would be way easier to debug and to find the reason. If it's specific to hardware, it's a puzzle.
Greetings, Stephan
Under VirtualBox, Fedora, Kubuntu, etc. are quite swift in every way, but then I run loads more services and applications in the base openSUSE system. Last time I tried kvm, starting VM's was super slow, even slower than kubuntu on a P-II/333 laptop with 96M memory + swap and 2M video card. Using openSUSE on that laptop is fine providing a lightweight WM is used instead of KDE, kubuntu no problem. I don't hang much importance on boot up times as they are insignificant to the time taken to download some files or to build an application, so if it takes 3 minutes to get my system up, it's no big deal. It may be for shops running thousands of users and applications a business depends on, even then mainframe shops find it can take up to 2 hours from the speedy login prompt to winding everything back in from a total shutdown, that's why near 100% uptime is critically important for them. Slowness compared to RedHat, etc. has long been a complaint I have seen in several reviews going back to SuSE. 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