Hi, On Friday 01 October 2004 15:29, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
On Saturday 02 October 2004 00:20, Bahram Alinezhad wrote:
If we continue to defend disadvantages with prejudice or dogma, we'll have never improvements.
I agree. :)
Would you mind doing a ps aux of your system, and sending us the output? That'll give us at least a bit of an idea of the services being started when you boot. You may be right though: perhaps SuSE by default has more things running than it should. I presume under Windows you have your file/printer sharing on?
One thing that occurs to me about SuSE (vs. an unknown set of other distributions that don't do this) is its default use of the "desktop" kernel option. As I understand this option, it increases the rate of some periodic kernel actions such as process scheduling to produce a more responsive feel for interactive operation. I'm not sure I remember this correctly, but I think it produces a ten-fold reduction in the CPU scheduling quantum (or, viewed the other way around, ten times more potential reschedulings per second). For a processor such as Bahram's "Ultra high speed CPU" (an AMD K6 at 550 MHz) that could account for a good bit of overhead when viewed as a percentage of available CPU cycles. Bahram, you can easily experiment with this by rebooting and during the splash-screen countdown, use the keyboard to navigate to the options text field and erase the "desktop" option shown there. (Note, too, that doing this will interrupt the countdown and you'll have to hit return to allow the boot process to continue.)
Regards,
Pieter Hulshoff
Randall Schulz