I agree with the different installs to see what your system is doing with
and in each. I am NOT a programmer nor even a hacker, just piddler and
wanting to learn as much as I possibly can about MY system. If what I
learn can be of any use for anyone else then I will pass it on for all.
I DO NOT keep anything to myself if it will benefit any others. As you
can see from the postings put forth from my addy, mostly useless
rhetoric. I have done the 'Developer' install some time back and do not
recall exactly what all took place either. I have had the mouse doing
the 'Jerks' and pauses all over the place. The HDD light usually is
lighting up the room when that is happening, very busy, even when nothing
has been started. There have been times when 'Ctl+Alt+ Backspace' would
not even work. After about 1/2 hour I did the NO NO, RESET to regain the
HIGH ground. I would recommend doing the reload as though it were a
fresh 'Install' so the Partitions will be reformatted for you and if
there is any software that had been installed that was not really needed
would be removed before you do an install that is more conducive to what
you would like.
Have fun and learn from the experiences,
don
I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:15:21 -0800 Michael Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> I'm dual booting an AMD K6/3 450 (actually booting Win98, NT 4,
> Mandrake linux,
> and BeOS 4.5- whew!) I have 192 MB RAM and a mix of both UDMA 33 &
> UDMA 66
> hard disks. My Linux system runs just as smooth as Windows. I know
> that
> doesn't answer why you're having problems, but I just want to assure
> you that
> Linux does work correctly.
>
> Now for a shot in the dark, on one of your previous reply's I
> noticed that you
> did a 'developer' installation - I wonder if somehow that could be
> the problem
> (I'm not a programmer, so I don't know). I would assume that doing
> that type
> of install would just install the extra source code for each
> program, but I
> don't know for sure. It sounds like you have a pretty fast system,
> why not try
> a re-install at just the basic installation? Not to encourage you
> to waste
> time, but one of the reasons I've seen a lot of people give up on
> Linux is not
> being able to get it to work right away. I personally installed
> several times
> with each different distribution that I've tried out, just to get a
> feel for
> what that version wanted to leave me with. Guys / gals that have
> been using
> Linux forever, would cringe at that advice, but I think it's the
> best way to
> get familiar with your system. (That and some books)
>
> One more thought, usually when I experience the system running sort
> of slow, or
> as you describe the mouse cursor break dancing across the screen,
> it's because
> something is running in the background draining the system resources
> (windows
> does the same thing). This sort of ties in with the 'developer'
> install; again
> I'm not sure what that install does, but it may be running something
> in the
> background that doesn't need to be running.
>
> Possibly (if you can get your kde desktop open) you could click the
> icon
> 'Drakconf', when that window opens click 'startup services' and you
> can view
> (and change) which programs start at boot time. I believe you also
> get this
> option when you install your system (it's been awhile since I've
> installed).
> For example, if you're not on a LAN, you don't need the 'NFS daemon'
> to start
> on boot. I also turn off the 'CRON daemon'; you'll have to read
> through your
> documentation to see which ones you can live without.
>
> And finally, even if you don't do the 'developer' install, you can
> still
> install all of the tools you need to write and compile programs
> (compilers,
> etc.) just by selecting at install time.
>
> I hope this has given you something to work with, if not, try not to
> get
> discouraged, Linux is worth it!
> Michael Holt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Charles Ulwelling wrote:
>
> > Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point
> where it
> > just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as
> RAM
> > utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse
> and it will
> > take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the location I moved it
> to. It is
> > really annoying.
> > Just out of curiosity should linux run as smoothly as win98 as far
> as
> > opening apps, and moving the app window across the screen or is it
> naturally
> > jumpy and something I should get used to.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charles Ulwelling
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anthony Huereca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 10:32 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
> >
> > I'm not sure why your system is so slow, but I can explain the RAM
> > utilization.
> > I've found out (as I once complained about the same thing that you
> are) that
> > Linux uses RAM differently than Windows. It'll take up all "x" (in
> your case
> > 256
> > MB) RAM soon after bootup. However, it shouldn't affect the
> performance at
> > all when you open program or anything. Instead of taking the Ram
> > in chunks like Windows, Linux just takes the whole thing at once.
> So don't
> > worry about seeing 100% ram utilization. Not sure why
> > Linux is slow though for you.
> >
> > > my processor is a PIII 450 overclocked to 540( not the problem
> I've
> > already
> > > declocked it and the same thing happens ), I have 256 megs of
> > SDRAM@100mhz,
> > > I have two ATA-66 drives one at 18 gigs and another at 27.3
> gigs, and a
> > > diamond viper v770.
> > >
> > > It is really wierd... I boot up and look at the system resource
> manager(I
> > > forget the name) and I can see my RAM usage go up by about 6 to
> 12 megs a
> > > second until it is all used up. It doesn't use any of the swap
> file
> > either.
> > > I don't understand.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Charles Ulwelling
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > Behalf Of Vic
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
> > >
> > >
> > > What is your processor speed, and how fast is
> > > your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33,
> > > or scsi?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed:
> > > > I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot
> up and
> > with
> > > > in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have
> 256 megs
> > of
> > > > RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux
> completely
> > > > unuseable. I'm booting into KDE.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Charles Ulwelling
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