[opensuse] Slow SuSE 10.2 on Fujitsu-Siemens L6820
Hello All, Has anyone any idea why Open SuSE 10.2 is so slow on a Fujitsu-Siemens L6820 latop. This laptop is a 2.4 Ghz Celeron, 1.5 Gig 333 Mhz DDR memory with 160 Gbyte hard drive. It take over 4 hours to install from DVD. Copied whole of DVD to harddrive and installed from there, this took 1 hour intsead of 4. The update from the internet took 6 hours. Everytime I boot the laptop it takes 8 mins to reach a point where I can start working. If I want to install any programs it takes 10 mins or more even if the program I want is on the had drive. It takes 3 mins for Yast2 to come up ready for searching/installing programs. Windows XP and ntfs/fat32 partitions not seen so were not in either mtab or fstab. When I changed mtab and fstab as root to see the Windows partitions and rebooted only one partition was seen and this was the fat32 partition. On one instance SuSE 10.2 took 15 mins to boot up to the graphical login. I use SuSE 10.2 on my desktop and found that SuSE 10.2 is up and ready to work in 1 min 25 secs. I assumed this would be the case for the laptop as well but this is not so. I have tried turning off the acpi with acpi=off and the other variations on the boot up screen but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. -- Kindest regards, Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:31N 01:27:48W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday July 12 2007 4:34:44 am Clive Rogers wrote:
Hello All,
Has anyone any idea why Open SuSE 10.2 is so slow on a Fujitsu-Siemens L6820 latop. This laptop is a 2.4 Ghz Celeron, 1.5 Gig 333 Mhz DDR memory with 160 Gbyte hard drive.
It take over 4 hours to install from DVD. Copied whole of DVD to harddrive and installed from there, this took 1 hour intsead of 4. The update from the internet took 6 hours.
Everytime I boot the laptop it takes 8 mins to reach a point where I can start working. If I want to install any programs it takes 10 mins or more even if the program I want is on the had drive. It takes 3 mins for Yast2 to come up ready for searching/installing programs.
Windows XP and ntfs/fat32 partitions not seen so were not in either mtab or fstab. When I changed mtab and fstab as root to see the Windows partitions and rebooted only one partition was seen and this was the fat32 partition.
On one instance SuSE 10.2 took 15 mins to boot up to the graphical login.
I use SuSE 10.2 on my desktop and found that SuSE 10.2 is up and ready to work in 1 min 25 secs. I assumed this would be the case for the laptop as well but this is not so.
I have tried turning off the acpi with acpi=off and the other variations on the boot up screen but to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated.
-- Kindest regards,
Clive.
I'd start with BIOS and firmware updates for the hardware of the laptop. Then I'd look at BIOS settings to verify those are all OK. Have you tried just a "3" on the boot command line for non-X operations and is that slow? Do you boot Windows XP on this system and does it run alright? If yes, then I'd suspect possibly powersaved is running at the slowest CPU speed and isn't dynamically switching. Use kpowersave and check all of its settings. Also check all the /var/log/* files you have the patience to do at that speed. There may be a clue in the boot sequence that says to try a boot option. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi Stan, <snip>
I have tried turning off the acpi with acpi=off and the other variations on the boot up screen but to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated.
-- Kindest regards,
Clive.
I'd start with BIOS and firmware updates for the hardware of the laptop. Then I'd look at BIOS settings to verify those are all OK.
The only settings I have in the bios is the apm which makes no difference to the speed. The bios has the latest update available for it.
Have you tried just a "3" on the boot command line for non-X operations and is that slow?
Not tried this one.
Do you boot Windows XP on this system and does it run alright? If yes, then I'd suspect possibly powersaved is running at the slowest CPU speed and isn't dynamically switching. Use kpowersave and check all of its settings.
Yes XP runs fine. I checked the kpowersave and I have it set to full power.
Also check all the /var/log/* files you have the patience to do at that speed. There may be a clue in the boot sequence that says to try a boot option.
That might take a while ;-)
-- Stan
Thanks for the suggestions. -- Kindest regards, Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:31N 01:27:48W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 12 July 2007 10:34, Clive Rogers wrote:
Hello All, <snip> On one instance SuSE 10.2 took 15 mins to boot up to the graphical login.
I use SuSE 10.2 on my desktop and found that SuSE 10.2 is up and ready to work in 1 min 25 secs. I assumed this would be the case for the laptop as well but this is not so.
I have tried turning off the acpi with acpi=off and the other variations on the boot up screen but to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated.
-- Kindest regards,
Clive.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/
Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:31N 01:27:48W
I found that putting acpi=bios in the grub loader shortens this boot up sequence to around 6-7 mins. I still have not found out why the laptop is running so slow but I suspect that there is something slowing the cpu down somehow. -- Kindest regards, Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:31N 01:27:48W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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