On Monday 21 May 2001 14:11, you wrote:
> 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.
>
> I feel compelled to add to this.
> I'm running LM 8.0 w/KDE2 on a 400 PII, with great success!
> I've experienced NONE of the slowness reported. While I admit that some of
> the "lean & mean" windows managers come up a lot faster, they're also doing
> a lot less for you. KDE is more than just a window manager, it's a desktop
> environment. Big difference.
>
> Anyway. Just wanted to throw that in. My KDE 2. runs great on a 400 PII. It
> has a modest 256MB ram, and about 30GB of disk to roam on. I'd suggest
> anyone getting performance as slow as is being reported, needs to do some
> serious digging into their configurations. Something is wrong.
>
> Ric
>
> > > 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
--
Just to add my 2 euros worth - I run MD8.0/Kde 2 on a homemade AMD K6II - 450
- no problems with slowness
Poogle
