On Saturday 31 May 2003 7:48 am, H du Plooy wrote:
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 05:04, Marian Routh wrote:
There have been quite a few posts on the slowness of OO in SuSE 8.2. It would be interesting to see what, if anything, all of you have in common because I'm running OO w/SuSE 8.2 and it is perfectly responsive
The problem is not that OO is just slow - it isn't. The problem is that OO is unusuably slow when setiathome isrunning (even if seti's nice is set quite high). This isn't so unusual, until you consider that it is only in SuSE 8.2 that this seems to be a problem. I had seti going at full blast 24/7 in SuSE 8.0 and 8.1 (and some other distros) and had no problem running OO. Someone else mentioned it worked fine on Libranet (debian) too.
So it seems there is a problem when using seti, OO and SuSE 8.2 together.
BTW, I compiled my kernel from the SuSE sources, and it didn't make any difference, although my desktop does seem a little quicker than before in general. I'll try a vanilla kernel when I find time, but I don't really feel like all the hoops I have to jump through to get everything going on a vanilla kenel.
Don't bother trying the vanilla kernel unless you have: 1) Patches for xfs (if you're using xfs) 2) Patches to allow the 2.4.20 kernel to compile under gcc 3.3 Anyone know where (2) is?
Hans
. It does take a tiny bit of time to open (a few seconds), but I can't see that any of the OO components behave differently than any other app - speedy. So it must be something that is different on the systems experiencing the slowness. I agree that it probably isn't an OO issue because the OO code you're running and I'm running is the same (I'm using the OO that came with 8.2 and assume you are, too). I clean-installed 8.2, using the standard AMD kernel that came with the distro, ACPI off, and no tweaks. Very standard all the way around. I don't run any distributed computing clients like Seti, so maybe that's it? What about the graphics cards involved - could the difficulty be coming from there perhaps? Mine is a Geforce 2 Ultra 64MB.
Cheers and good luck,
Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic!
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