Hello, Maybe I'm feeling sensitive since my road accident, but how come this guy gets nice sensible comments when he raises this point and I just get a load of "there, there - maybe you should try the newbie list. Cooker is for the real developers you know" type of comments !!!
;-) Owen On Sunday 17 Feb 2002 11:46 am, you wrote: > Hi, > > After a clean install it's nice if your system feels quick and responsive. > That's why forcing slocate on every new user maybe wasn't such a good > idea. But this isn't about slocate, it's about a couple of other processes > that made my 020217 install crawl. > > I logged in for the first time, started to explore the system. The hard > drive started to go crazy and the speed reminded me of 1992. I fired up > 'top' and saw that awk was consuming 10-15% CPU while the hard drive was > thrashing. After a few minutes awk was done and rpmv appeared, consuming > 30-90% CPU, while the hard drive continued to read and read. This went on > for several minutes. > > Maybe this is normal, but could it be avoided somehow, to make the first > time experience feel a little more snappy? > > Regards, > Mattias
