On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:42 am, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of iggy > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install > > On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:53 am, robin wrote: > > iggy wrote: > > >dear all, > > > > > >***symptoms*** i recently installed 9.0 and have noticed that it is > > > painfully slow. i'm very surprised as 8.2 ran like a bat out of hell. > > > > > >***pertinate info*** msi mobo(i don't remember the model offhand), amd > > > 1700+ cpu, 256 mb ram (unknown manufacturer), wd 40gb hard drive, sony > > > 16x dvd, verbatim 40x,12x, 48x cdrw, d-link 10/100 network card and > > > hub, g-force 2 64mb w/ tv out, sound blaster audigy mp3 sound card, > > > (and i hope i didn't forget anything else! lol) > > > > > >***specifics*** slow starting kde, slow starting each and every app, > > fast > > > >logging out, fast boot to graphical log in. > > > > > >any additional info you may need, please feal free to ask (i'm a n00b, > > > so i may be RTFM on how to retreive that info!) > > > > > >as always, thanks to those volunteers and others whom take time to > > > generously help out those of us with less experience. > > > > An obvious question, but have you checked to see what daemons are > > running (Mandrake Control Center->System->Services)? A couple of times > > I've clicked on a package I didn't actually need during installation, so > > then Mandrake obligingly started the appropriate demon. Some of these > > can be real resource-hoggers, fetchmail being one of the wrost offenders. > > > > Sir Robin > > thanks for the tip. i had noticed that when i rebooted (i dual boot with > win98 for a few games i have) that the squid deamon was failing to stop > normally. i attempted to stop the deamon through the services menu and it > failed to stop also. i then uninstalled it. > > also, i noticed that mysql and postgresql were both installed. since i'm > only > interested in learing mysql (for now), i stopped the postgresql deamon and > uninstalled it also. the innd deamon ran installed and running. since i'm > not creating my own news server i stopped the deamon and removed the > program. > > if anything i've done seems (or is) wrong, please feel free to let me know. > > thanks, again. > -iggy > > One thing I found on my system, Gigabyte MB w/ Maxtor HD and Athlon 1800 > cpu, was that if I had the bios set with HD detection on auto my whole > system ran poorly, as in slow and glitchy. As soon as I did an detect hard > drives" in bios and then rebooted, we went into highgear and everything > works well. I have no explanation since I don't know how the auto function > works but, seems like it may be something to look at. HTH Dennis M.
good idea... off to do a reboot! btw, seems like a good idea to shave a few seconds off the rare reboot (i do use win98 for several games). -iggy
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