On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > Hi all. > > > > I installed Mandrake 8.1 on my friend's computer which is a Pentium 200 > > MHz with 256 MB of RAM. I used Kernel 2.4.x, XFree86 4.1.0 and the rest of > > the default MDK configuration. We used Vanilla IceWM as the desktop. > > > > >From some reason, it ran very sluggishly. After we downgraded to RedHat > > 6.1, it ran perfectly fine, even with GNOME or KDE. > > > > So the question is: what caused the fact that the newer configuration ran > > more slowly than the older one, despite the fact that it used a much more > > lightweight desktop environment. Was it the new XFree86? The newer Kernel > > (2.4.x vs. 2.2.x)? Or what? > > If you suspect XFree: What display adapter? > > Generally XFree 4 is not more slugish. >
He has an ATI Mach64-based video card. > Have you checked for unnecessary servers? What were the main CPU and > memory consumers? > I don't know. > Did you check KDE programs? Keep in mind that a kde program (like > konqueror) brings up all of the KDE "daemon processes" with it. > We did not use KDE. We used Vanilla IceWM. No KDE, no GNOME, no batikh - just IceWM. > Have you tried an icewm there that only uses solid backgrounds (and not > gradients and bitmaps)? I'm not sure how much this has an effect with a > P200. > We used a solid background. > One thing that may make mandrake appear slugish sometimes is anacron: > > anacron runs the last cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and > cron.monthly cron jobs that were missed (because the system was not > running, or not running linux) at a later time. "a later time" is sometime > after the next time the computer boots. > > So the first time you run Mandrake in a day it may run some "heavy" cron > jobs such as locate's updatedb (goes over the whole directory tree). > I don't think anacron was running. But who knows. > Have you tried diposing of kdm and using a non-graphical login? > I believe that this is a non-issue, but I keep seeing a "kdeapm" (or > something similar) process taking ~80% CPU with priority 20 on a friend's > machine with Mandrake 8.0, that loggs into icewm. > We started X from the command line using startx. > > > > Since the machine is not connected to the Internet, and my friend only > > uses it for a university course, which does not require all the software > > to be the most up-to-date, it is not critical that he will run the older > > distro. But, still I'd hate to think that Linux is becoming as bloated as > > Windows does. > > Still, a good C++ compiler may be relevant to your friend. I believe that > recent linux distros have a better c++ compiler. Other than that, it is > indeed not that important. > > BTW: Keep in mind that cygwin also includes gcc. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If: 1. A is A 2. A is not not-A does it imply that 1. B is B 2. B is not not-B ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
