Please let us know as soon as you have the disk
optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test
it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard
drive and I'm not getting the performance I should
from it yet.
TC
--- Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 21 May 2001 08:01, Irv wrote:
> > From: Pelle Poluha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake
> 8
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > That you'll have - but not with KDE 2, I'm
> afraid.
> > Even people with 1ghz / 256 mb machines have
> reported slowness.
> > My 300mhz / 128 meg pc is too slow to be usable,
> but not quite as
> > slow as you report - usually KDE takes 30-40
> seconds, and new apps
> > or windows 10 - 20 seconds.
> >
> > The good news is that KDE 1.x works just fine. Try
> an older version of
> > Mandrake or SuSE or RedHat. They're all plenty
> fast.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Irv
> >
> > > 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
>
> Grrrr!
>
> The speed you perceive will be related to the
> performance of your HDDs more
> than any other single factor. I am doing fine with
> a Celeron 366 and a
> well-tuned disk drive which turns up a read rate of
> 31.89Mb/s
>
> I should have a disk optimizer out next week for
> testing. It will probably
> make a world of difference.
>
> Civileme
>
>
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