We received a copy of 9.1 today at work and I have installed this on three machines with dissapointing results. The first machine was an IBM Thinkpad R40 with a Centino 1600 CPU. This machine worked fine and the performance was great. The second and third machines were unusable, KDE takes serveral minutes to start, attempting to start YAST for instance will take about a minute for the SU box to appear and then another minute for YAST to load. I get similar results for all applications I have tried, in all instances the system performs like a P100 with very little RAM. The machines that run slowly are both Athlon XP based machines, one being an Athlon XP 2400 with 1GB of DDR RAM on an ECS Elite motherboard. The second machine is an XP2000 with 512MB of PC3200 RAM on a PCChips motherboard. I have applied all the updates with no effect. Any ideas would be appreciated, I've had to switch back to 9.0 as the whole 9.1 experience is unuseable has anybody got any ideas? David -- David Bottrill Registered Linux user number 330730 www.bottrill.org Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699
Hi Dude, Please set the right date before sending email! :0) On Monday 28 October 2002 08:01 pm, David Bottrill wrote:
We received a copy of 9.1 today at work and I have installed this on three machines with dissapointing results.
The first machine was an IBM Thinkpad R40 with a Centino 1600 CPU. This machine worked fine and the performance was great.
The second and third machines were unusable, KDE takes serveral minutes to start, attempting to start YAST for instance will take about a minute for the SU box to appear and then another minute for YAST to load. I get similar results for all applications I have tried, in all instances the system performs like a P100 with very little RAM.
The machines that run slowly are both Athlon XP based machines, one being an Athlon XP 2400 with 1GB of DDR RAM on an ECS Elite motherboard.
The second machine is an XP2000 with 512MB of PC3200 RAM on a PCChips motherboard.
I have applied all the updates with no effect.
Any ideas would be appreciated, I've had to switch back to 9.0 as the whole 9.1 experience is unuseable has anybody got any ideas?
David
-- David Bottrill
Registered Linux user number 330730 www.bottrill.org Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699
-- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Currently listening to The Resophonics http://www.resophonics.com/music.html --
Hi Dude,
Please set the right date before sending email! :0) Although there is a bit of a breakdown in manners today, here in
Peter B Van Campen wrote: the south (southeast USA) some still attempt to teach manners to their children. One rule is "if you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all". If you had written that along with some useful answer to his question, I doubt anyone would object but you didn't offer any help. Your own words are coming back to bite you. In http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Dec/3328.html you wrote Those who can >do Those who can't >criticize So I say: "Either Lead, Follow, or get out of the way" Damon Register
On Thursday 06 May 2004 09:29 am, Damon Register wrote:
Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Hi Dude,
Please set the right date before sending email! :0)
Although there is a bit of a breakdown in manners today, here in the south (southeast USA) some still attempt to teach manners to their children. One rule is "if you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all". If you had written that along with some useful answer to his question, I doubt anyone would object but you didn't offer any help.
Your own words are coming back to bite you. In http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Dec/3328.html you wrote
Those who can >do Those who can't >criticize So I say: "Either Lead, Follow, or get out of the way"
Damon Register Hello Damon,
I do not yet have 9.1, so I have little to offer one who is having 9.1 problems; but I did offer assistance in pointing out that this person was unknowingly dating his emails so far in the past that most readers email pgms would put his inquirys at the bottom (or top) of their inboxes, and therefore easily missed. I was offering advice that would lead this person into visability by the most listees. I started my comment with "Please" and I ended it with a 'smiley' :0). This is acceptably polite here in Illinois, and New York state where I was raised, and fully complies to the politness employed by my 'tidewater' Virginia family members. PeterB p.s. Thanks for pointing out my Dec. '03 thoughts and rebuttals to new and old members of the list!! :0) -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Currently listening to The Resophonics http://www.resophonics.com/music.html --
Now that I have tried to install 9.1 on my home server, I am searching threads on slow 9.1. I came across this and I appologize to Peter. Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Thursday 06 May 2004 09:29 am, Damon Register wrote:
Your own words are coming back to bite you. In http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Dec/3328.html
visability by the most listees. I started my comment with "Please" and I ended it with a 'smiley' :0). This is acceptably polite here in Illinois, and I need a bigger screen or better glasses
Damon Register
Maybe his computer is *REALLY* slow! ;-) Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Hi Dude,
Please set the right date before sending email! :0)
On Monday 28 October 2002 08:01 pm, David Bottrill wrote:
We received a copy of 9.1 today at work and I have installed this on three machines with dissapointing results.
The first machine was an IBM Thinkpad R40 with a Centino 1600 CPU. This machine worked fine and the performance was great.
The second and third machines were unusable, KDE takes serveral minutes to start, attempting to start YAST for instance will take about a minute for the SU box to appear and then another minute for YAST to load. I get similar results for all applications I have tried, in all instances the system performs like a P100 with very little RAM.
The machines that run slowly are both Athlon XP based machines, one being an Athlon XP 2400 with 1GB of DDR RAM on an ECS Elite motherboard.
The second machine is an XP2000 with 512MB of PC3200 RAM on a PCChips motherboard.
I have applied all the updates with no effect.
Any ideas would be appreciated, I've had to switch back to 9.0 as the whole 9.1 experience is unuseable has anybody got any ideas?
David
-- David Bottrill
Registered Linux user number 330730 www.bottrill.org Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699
On Friday 07 May 2004 00:14, James Knott wrote:
Maybe his computer is *REALLY* slow! ;-)
Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Hi Dude,
Please set the right date before sending email! :0)
On Monday 28 October 2002 08:01 pm, David Bottrill wrote:
We received a copy of 9.1 today at work and I have installed this on three machines with dissapointing results. snip<
Hey guys the laugh's on me I apolgise for the incorrect time, my main PC has a CMOS power problem and I did power it down to swap hard drives, keeping my 9.0 installation, I just forgot to reset the time and it was too far out for NTP to fix instantly. Anyway the problem is sorted of sorts, it turns out that 9.1 has some sort of issue with the hostname / DNS entries passed over by DHCP from my SuSE 8.2 server. I have given the box a fixed IP and set the DNS Hostname, Domain and gateway manually the machine is now blindingly fast. My next task is to work out what exactly is going wrong with DHCP, everything looks ok but I found I couldn't ping the machine by it's hostname or any other device on my LAN by name, external addresses were resolved correctly. David -- Registered Linux user number 330730 www.bottrill.org Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699
David Bottrill wrote:
Any ideas would be appreciated, I've had to switch back to 9.0 as the whole 9.1 experience is unuseable has anybody got any ideas?
try hdparm -t /dev/hda, hdparm /dev/hda and hdparm -i /dev/hda and examine their output. It might be possible that DMA is not used. Try issuing the command between the quotes, and if everything continues to work ok (also retest with hdparm -t), run the whole "echo" line. Read man hdparm to understand what each option does. echo "hdparm -c1u1W1d1 /dev/hda" >> /etc/init.d/boot.local
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