Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 7.2 + 8.0 bloated and resource hog!

[Michael Brown]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Pete wrote:
> I definitely turn off "mon", as it usually has my system for lunch right 
> after the install. Another thing that slows performance initially are 
> things like slocate. I know that it is necessary to update the database 
> and that once the database is updated, the next update goes relatively 
> quickly. However, if you have a number of partitions/hd's the initial 
> update takes forever, and all your resources are gone. A new user would 
> have no clue what is happening.

Seconded - the initial slocate update can bring a machine to a virtual
halt for quite a long period of time, certainly long enough for a newbie
to (wrongly) conclude that "Linux is slow".

Michael