On Monday 21 May 2001 03:07, Pelle Poluha wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm working as a developer and needs a stable environment to develop and
> test deployments in. So I want to switch from Windows. I need stability but
> at the same time I want speed and a practical UI (read GUI). I need a
> smooth file manager, easy access to OS, an editor, browser, email client
> (the usual I guess) and a C++ & Java IDE.
>
> I opted for Mandrake because I've heard a lot of good things about it. So I
> downloaded 8.0 last week and eagerly installed it on my AMD K333 machine
> (96 mb, Riva TNT) on a 2 gig partition. As I've followed the development of
> KDE with great interest, I chose KDE as default windows manager (and it
> has KDevelop).
>
> But it's really slow. Just loading Mandrake takes like 3-4 minutes. Some of
> it, I can understand. In the installation process, I included lots of apps
> and some of them gets loaded when Mandrake starts (like MySql and postgres,
> probably some more servers). But that surely doesn't account for the
> immensly slow loading of the OS.
>
> And then I start KDE... It takes another 2-3 minutes. And using it is
> awful. Loading a simple app might take 10-20 secs and everything just
> crawls. I just can't use it. I tried Window Maker instead and it worked
> better. But I don't want to drop KDE just yet. There must be something
> wrong with the configuration. I also tried Gnome but it started to look for
> a trash folder which it didn't find. Although I canceled that search, it
> seemed like it continued to search for the folder because the hd were
> working really hard all the time and everything worked even slower than in
> KDE.
>
> There are also some more strange things happening:
> - when I leave the windows manager and come to the 'console', I get a line
> typed on the screen all the time: "Sending ICMP signal...failed" (or
> something like that). It effectively stops me from working in console mode.
> - it seems like I've lost my internet connection. During installation, I
> selected 'DHCP-server' when asked for IP address. And I managed to do some
> surfing using Konqueror. But after installing Gnome and Window Maker,
> something must have happened to the configuration.
> - shutting down or restaring the OS always hangs the machine.
> - when I start Windows instead, using the boot manager, the initial loading
> process seems to be slower now than before. It's not a big deal because it
> works fine when Windows is loaded but it might give a clue to why the
> system is so slow when I start Linux.
>
> Please advice!
>
> Regards,
> Pelle Poluha
> Sweden
It appears that your slowness is related to resolution and disks. Check your
network connection, kill portsentry, if it is running and send the following
outputs in a plain brown email.
dmesg
hdparm -i /dev/hda
(repeat previous line for every hard disk drive)
Also are you using reiserfs?
Civileme
