I just installed SuSE 8.0 and after logging in the kde window manager takes over three and a half minutes to completely load. Anybody else having this problem? Anyone managed to solve it? If so, how? Actually the work around that I've come up with is to use blackbox instead. Not too bad. Maury
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 05:06, Maury Merkin wrote:
I just installed SuSE 8.0 and after logging in the kde window manager takes over three and a half minutes to completely load.
Anybody else having this problem? Anyone managed to solve it? If so, how?
Actually the work around that I've come up with is to use blackbox instead. Not too bad.
Maury
That's hard to say. Please provide us with some more info, like what kind of hardware you are using. cheers, Marcel
I'm running a Dell Pentium II 450MHz with 128MB of SDRAM. But what seems more germaine to me is that blackbox loads instantly and under SuSE 7.2 and 7.3 the kde window manager completely loaded in a reasonable time, probably on the order of twenty or at most thirty seconds. It's only been this slow since I installed SuSE 8.0. Maury Marcel Broekman wrote:
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 05:06, Maury Merkin wrote:
I just installed SuSE 8.0 and after logging in the kde window manager takes over three and a half minutes to completely load.
Anybody else having this problem? Anyone managed to solve it? If so, how?
Actually the work around that I've come up with is to use blackbox instead. Not too bad.
Maury
That's hard to say. Please provide us with some more info, like what kind of hardware you are using.
cheers, Marcel
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 00:15, Maury Merkin wrote:
I'm running a Dell Pentium II 450MHz with 128MB of SDRAM. But what seems more germaine to me is that blackbox loads instantly and under SuSE 7.2 and 7.3 the kde window manager completely loaded in a reasonable time, probably on the order of twenty or at most thirty seconds. It's only been this slow since I installed SuSE 8.0.
Maury
Marcel Broekman wrote:
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 05:06, Maury Merkin wrote:
I just installed SuSE 8.0 and after logging in the kde window manager takes over three and a half minutes to completely load.
Did you install fresh or upgrade? Something is certainly not right with the setup! Of course, you knew that, huh? ;o) Did you use your old settings? Has it done the slow load time from the beginning or after you made some changes? I know mine has not exhibited any slow downs, in fact, it probably loads the quickest ever with 8.0 install. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
Patrick wrote:
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 00:15, Maury Merkin wrote:
I'm running a Dell Pentium II 450MHz with 128MB of SDRAM. But what seems more germaine to me is that blackbox loads instantly and under SuSE 7.2 and 7.3 the kde window manager completely loaded in a reasonable time, probably on the order of twenty or at most thirty seconds. It's only been this slow since I installed SuSE 8.0.
Maury
Marcel Broekman wrote:
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 05:06, Maury Merkin wrote:
I just installed SuSE 8.0 and after logging in the kde window manager takes over three and a half minutes to completely load.
Did you install fresh or upgrade? Something is certainly not right with the setup! Of course, you knew that, huh? ;o)
Did you use your old settings? Has it done the slow load time from the beginning or after you made some changes? I know mine has not exhibited any slow downs, in fact, it probably loads the quickest ever with 8.0 install.
Patrick
I installed fresh but kept my old /home partition. Of course that didn't have the new ~/.kde subdirectory tree. Mostly I wanted to know if this is something others had encountered and whether or not some package upgrade was going to fix it. I guess not so I'll just have to go hunting. Thanks anyway. Maury
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 05:01, Maury Merkin wrote:
I installed fresh but kept my old /home partition. Of course that didn't have the new ~/.kde subdirectory tree.
Mostly I wanted to know if this is something others had encountered and whether or not some package upgrade was going to fix it. I guess not so I'll just have to go hunting.
Thanks anyway.
Maury
=============================== Maury, That may be part of your problem then, the fact that the old /home directory is still there, causing some conflicts. You might try renaming your old config files folder and let the new KDE3 programs make their own new ones. Most of us, that have few problems, have started fresh with the entire install and only moved certain config files over to test before using them fully. That too is one of the reasons they warn against just updating from one version to the next. Especially with all the changes that took place from 7.3 to 8.0, I would recommend a complete fresh install. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
I find that the new SuSE 8.0 is so slow as to be unuseable. Either they left a lot of debug code in it, or I don't know why. SuSE 7.1 was useable, but this is ridiculous. Maybe it only works well on 1 GHz machines. But they say you can run it on a 486. Yeah. If you will wait for next week to get the prompt back. --doug At 05:01 05/08/2002 -0400, Maury Merkin wrote:
Patrick wrote:
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 00:15, Maury Merkin wrote:
I'm running a Dell Pentium II 450MHz with 128MB of SDRAM. But what seems more germaine to me is that blackbox loads instantly and under SuSE 7.2 and 7.3 the kde window manager completely loaded in a reasonable time, probably on the order of twenty or at most thirty seconds. It's only been this slow since I installed SuSE 8.0.
Maury
Marcel Broekman wrote:
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 05:06, Maury Merkin wrote:
I just installed SuSE 8.0 and after logging in the kde window manager takes over three and a half minutes to completely load.
Did you install fresh or upgrade? Something is certainly not right with the setup! Of course, you knew that, huh? ;o)
Did you use your old settings? Has it done the slow load time from the beginning or after you made some changes? I know mine has not exhibited any slow downs, in fact, it probably loads the quickest ever with 8.0 install.
Patrick
I installed fresh but kept my old /home partition. Of course that didn't have the new ~/.kde subdirectory tree.
Mostly I wanted to know if this is something others had encountered and whether or not some package upgrade was going to fix it. I guess not so I'll just have to go hunting.
Thanks anyway.
Maury
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On 8 May 2002, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I find that the new SuSE 8.0 is so slow as to be unuseable.
On what kind of machine? You are the first person I know that has said that SuSE 8.0 is (much) slower than previous releases. What's slow? KDE? Then blame the KDE folks. YaST2? Well, no, it's much faster than the previous YaST2. What's so slow?
Either they left a lot of debug code in it, or I don't know why.
No, the SuSE developers definitely didn't compile everything with "-g". Besides, that mostly hurts file size and memory, not so much performance (AFAIK).
SuSE 7.1 was useable, but this is ridiculous.
What were you using in SuSE 7.1? KDE 2.2.x or 2.1.x? KDE releases tend to get slow over age with not enough RAM.
Maybe it only works well on 1 GHz machines. But they say you can run it on a 486. Yeah. If you will wait for next week to get the prompt back.
Well, I have a (heavily modified) SUSE 7.2 running on a 233MHz system with 96MiB of RAM. By today's standards, this machine is junk, but it runs the following, at the same time, very nicely: - Samba server; fast enough to burn CDs at 16X over the network - DHCP server - Unreal Tournament server - XFree86 w/ KDE Of course, all this on a 486 is too much. Just a samba server on a 486 is pushing it. AFAIK, UNIXes tend to be happy with lots of RAM. In all, it makes no sense for SuSE to cater to the extreme-low- end server / workstation. The percentage of market share of those users is even lower than those of the extreme-high-end servers / workstations (e.g., SuSE and x86-64, Enterprise Server offerings, SPARC versions of SuSE, etc.). As a person whose only computer has 32MiB of RAM, I share your pain. That's why I use Windows 95 as my primary operating system. Everything has its place. You might want to look into Debian or Slackware. -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0
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