Re: [newbie] slow network transfer

2004-08-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:22, JASON JESSO wrote: > I am at work where I use a PC with Mandrake Linux 10 > on it. I am connected to a switch which is set to > auto negotiate and my network card seems to be at 10 > half duplex. > > My sysadmin does not know linux, but says that I > should be at 100

Re: [newbie] Slow openoffice

2004-05-02 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 06:56:53 +0300 rhein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Since a few days openoffice hangs when I open saved files... I opened > those same files much quicker before. I have about 500 mb of RAM on my > > machine so I don't think this is the problem. I don't think it's the

Re: [newbie] Slow openoffice

2004-04-28 Thread robin
rhein wrote: Hello, Since a few days openoffice hangs when I open saved files... I opened those same files much quicker before. I have about 500 mb of RAM on my machine so I don't think this is the problem. Any idea ? I red about Abiword on this list... what are the differences with oowrite? By

[newbie] Slow openoffice

2004-04-27 Thread rhein
Hello, Since a few days openoffice hangs when I open saved files... I opened those same files much quicker before. I have about 500 mb of RAM on my machine so I don't think this is the problem. Any idea ? I red about Abiword on this list... what are the differences with oowrite? By the way is Ko

Re: [newbie] Slow to resolve host names

2004-03-30 Thread frankieh
Stephen Reynolds wrote: I have just installed a D-Link DSL-504 router. One of the machines connected to this router is dual booting XP/Mandrake 10. If I boot to Linux, web browsing is very slow, much slower than when I'm booted to XP. Browsing with Linux is also much slower than when I was con

[newbie] Slow to resolve host names

2004-03-30 Thread Stephen Reynolds
I have just installed a D-Link DSL-504 router. One of the machines connected to this router is dual booting XP/Mandrake 10. If I boot to Linux, web browsing is very slow, much slower than when I'm booted to XP. Browsing with Linux is also much slower than when I was connecting to my ADSL accoun

Re: [newbie] slow modem start with kppp

2004-03-27 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:59 pm, many eyes viewed Russell Butler's words:- > Hello all > Since a recent reinstall of ML9.1, there is a 60 second delay before the > modem responds to the initial opening of the dialer. I have tried to > adjust the sensible things in the modem setup, and after making > a

[newbie] slow modem start with kppp

2004-03-27 Thread Russell Butler
Hello all Since a recent reinstall of ML9.1, there is a 60 second delay before the modem responds to the initial opening of the dialer. I have tried to adjust the sensible things in the modem setup, and after making adjustments it seems to work immediately, but then next time I try to log on I

Re: [newbie] slow and failing uploads

2003-11-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:42, Todd Slater wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:36:58PM -0400, Adolfo Bello wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:30, Todd Slater wrote: > > > I've got a couple of php/sql apps on a server running 9.1 that will take > > > uploads. The problem is that the uploads take fore

Re: [newbie] slow and failing uploads

2003-11-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:36:58PM -0400, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:30, Todd Slater wrote: > > I've got a couple of php/sql apps on a server running 9.1 that will take > > uploads. The problem is that the uploads take forever and sometimes die > > before they're finished. These

Re: [newbie] slow and failing uploads

2003-11-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:30, Todd Slater wrote: > I've got a couple of php/sql apps on a server running 9.1 that will take > uploads. The problem is that the uploads take forever and sometimes die > before they're finished. These are done through a web interface--no ftp > or anything like that. Dow

[newbie] slow and failing uploads

2003-11-06 Thread Todd Slater
I've got a couple of php/sql apps on a server running 9.1 that will take uploads. The problem is that the uploads take forever and sometimes die before they're finished. These are done through a web interface--no ftp or anything like that. Downloads work fine. I have a hunch that this is related t

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 04:41 pm, et wrote: > I am glad we don't have the hardware specs any more too... so now I can > chime in "add more memory" Er, didn't notice what anyone had posted about that - was it low? I just assumed (shame on me!) that with Ram so cheap now-a-days, that everybo

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-31 Thread et
On Friday 31 January 2003 12:58 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 31 January 2003 12:53 pm, iggy wrote: > > anyother ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > -iggy > > Make sure you don't have a hostname conflict somewhere. That wil definitely > slow your system down. > > Also, you can get KDE t

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 12:53 pm, iggy wrote: > anyother ideas would be greatly appreciated. > -iggy Make sure you don't have a hostname conflict somewhere. That wil definitely slow your system down. Also, you can get KDE to bootup faster by editing: /usr/bin/startkde and commenting out the

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-31 Thread iggy
On Thursday 30 January 2003 01:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 6:30 pm, et wrote: > > > > > > > > I would suggest you turn of DNS, caching name server, named, routed > > > > and yp services and other YP services (unless you need them and > > > > understand how to correctly conf

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 6:30 pm, et wrote: > > > > > I would suggest you turn of DNS, caching name server, named, routed and > > > yp services and other YP services (unless you need them and understand > > > how to correctly configure them > > > > seems that named (a DNS) would be the only one i n

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread et
> > > > I would suggest you turn of DNS, caching name server, named, routed and > > yp services and other YP services (unless you need them and understand > > how to correctly configure them > > seems that named (a DNS) would be the only one i need of the ones you > mentioned as i am attempting to

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread iggy
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

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread iggy
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 insta

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread et
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 insta

RE: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install -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

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread iggy
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 offha

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread robin
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

[newbie] Slow

2003-01-21 Thread Geoff Thomas
Thanks for the responses. When I rebooted the system was working. I checked the network setup, ran top and ps aux and didn't see anything to strange I shutdown some services. Will watch closely. Thanks for the responses. Geoff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://ww

Re: [newbie] Slow

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 22:03, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:19 am, Geoff Thomas wrote: > > I have installed LM 9.0. It was running OK, but suddenly slowed down to a > > crawl. Rebooted and it is still slow. It works but launcing a console takes > > over one minute. I reinstalled and

Re: [newbie] Slow

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:19 am, Geoff Thomas wrote: > I have installed LM 9.0. It was running OK, but suddenly slowed down to a > crawl. Rebooted and it is still slow. It works but launcing a console takes > over one minute. I reinstalled and it worked until I shut down and then on > reboot it slow

Re: [newbie] Slow

2003-01-20 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > Any thoughts. > > Geoff open up a console, launch "top" and you'll see something like this: -- 66 processes: 64 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 11,9% user, 2,7% system, 0,0% nice, 9,3% idle Mem: 192132K av, 181268K used, 10864K free, 0K shrd,

Re: [newbie] Slow

2003-01-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 13:19, Geoff Thomas wrote: > I have installed LM 9.0. It was running OK, but suddenly slowed down > to a crawl. Rebooted and it is still slow. It works but launcing a > console takes over one minute. I reinstalled and it worked until I > shut down and then on reboot it slowed

Re: [newbie] Slow Boot-up

2003-01-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 10 Jan 2003 1:04 am, Joe Braddock wrote: > I resolved a slow boot problem by not have my usb card reader connected at > boot time. It seemed that when there wasn't a card in the reader, there > was a long delay waiting for the virtual scsi disk it was mapped to, to > time out. Actua

Re: [newbie] Slow Boot-up

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 08:52, Anne Wilson wrote: > [root@anne-linux anne]# dmesg > Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk (root@ttla) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 > 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Wed Sep 24 12:02:09 EDT 2003 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e820: - 0009e800 (usable) >

Re: [newbie] Slow Boot-up

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 22:52, Anne Wilson wrote: > Recently I have experience slow boot-up times. Since I rarely re-boot, I have > no idea when the problem started. Undoubtedly it is because of something > that I have changed, but it could have been any time over the last few weeks, > so I coul

Re: [newbie] Slow Boot-up

2003-01-09 Thread et
On Thursday 09 January 2003 12:25 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 1:40 pm, et wrote: > > are you running hard drake each boot? > > I don't know. What should I check? I have usb devices plugged in > constantly. Do I need it for that? > > Anne As I understand it, you only really ne

Re: [newbie] Slow Boot-up

2003-01-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 1:40 pm, et wrote: > are you running hard drake each boot? > I don't know. What should I check? I have usb devices plugged in constantly. Do I need it for that? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Slow Boot-up

2003-01-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 1:15 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 11:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Recently I have experience slow boot-up times. Since I rarely re-boot, I > > have no idea when the problem started. Undoubtedly it is because of > > something that I have changed, but

Re: [newbie] Slow Boot-up

2003-01-09 Thread et
very kwel, thanx On Thursday 09 January 2003 08:15 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 11:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Recently I have experience slow boot-up times. Since I rarely re-boot, I > > have no idea when the problem started. Undoubtedly it is because of > > something th

Re: [newbie] Slow Boot-up

2003-01-09 Thread et
are you running hard drake each boot? On Thursday 09 January 2003 06:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > Recently I have experience slow boot-up times. Since I rarely re-boot, I > have no idea when the problem started. Undoubtedly it is because of > something that I have changed, but it could have been

Re: [newbie] Slow Boot-up

2003-01-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 11:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > Recently I have experience slow boot-up times. Since I rarely re-boot, I > have no idea when the problem started. Undoubtedly it is because of > something that I have changed, but it could have been any time over the > last few weeks, so I co

Re: [newbie] slow boot

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 11:31, Jim Snyder wrote: > Yes, I did the cmos thing, etc. It must be the network card. How do I stop the > network from loading at startup? > Thank you > Are you really sure it's the network? Even if the network card is set for DHCP, the eth0 shouldn't take that long. I hav

RE: [newbie] slow boot

2002-11-17 Thread Aguet, Pierre
e the MCC, Mandrake Control Center. Have your root password handy. HTH Peter -Original Message- From: Jim Snyder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 1:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Joseph Braddock Subject: Re: [newbie] slow boot Yes, I did the cmos thing, etc. It

Re: [newbie] slow boot

2002-11-17 Thread Jim Snyder
Yes, I did the cmos thing, etc. It must be the network card. How do I stop the network from loading at startup? Thank you On Sunday 17 November 2002 06:46 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:41, Jim Snyder wrote: > > Hi > > > > I recently loaded mandrake 9.0 and am thrilled with

Re: [newbie] slow boot

2002-11-17 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:41, Jim Snyder wrote: > Hi > > I recently loaded mandrake 9.0 and am thrilled with it overall. I have had > some problems with a HP CD-writer that I finally unplugged as I have another > USB HP CD-RW that works fine. I am suspecting a problem from doing this. > > When L

Re: [newbie] Slow pop and ftp

2002-10-11 Thread Miark
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > Is it always slow, or just the last week or so? Always. > I have noticed some real problems lately, and wonder if it is down > to viruses overloading the system. As I said, FTP and POP3 are slow, but SSH and SMTP are still quick. Miark Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Slow pop and ftp

2002-10-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 Oct 2002 5:08 am, you wrote: > When I fetch mail from my company server, it takes about 30 seconds. > What might be the problem? This is on an 8.2 machine. > > Also, when I connect to the FTP server, it takes about 11 seconds.What > might be the problem here? Might the POP and FTP lag

[newbie] Slow pop and ftp

2002-10-10 Thread Miark
When I fetch mail from my company server, it takes about 30 seconds. What might be the problem? This is on an 8.2 machine. Also, when I connect to the FTP server, it takes about 11 seconds.What might be the problem here? Might the POP and FTP lag be related? By the way, sending mail is instant,

Re: [newbie] Slow keys SOLVED

2002-05-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 May 2002 16:56, David wrote: > Michael Adams said onto me: > -- > > |On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:52, Gerald Waugh wrote: > |> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > |> > Michael Adams wrote: > |> > > When typi

Re: [newbie] Slow keys

2002-05-22 Thread David
Michael Adams said onto me: -- |On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:52, Gerald Waugh wrote: |> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: |> > Michael Adams wrote: |> > > When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take a

Re: [newbie] Slow keys

2002-05-22 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 01:45 am, Michael Adams wrote: > > It not the memory thing. It may be to do with my choice of the > US(international) keyboard. All KDE apps wait to see what the next > character typed is and then place accents (grávès?) on the vowels. Nice > feature, but how do i turn it

Re: [newbie] Slow keys

2002-05-21 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:52, Gerald Waugh wrote: > On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > > Michael Adams wrote: > > > When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take about a full > > > second to be actioned. Specifically punctuation keys like ["] and [']. > > > I am running

Re: [newbie] Slow keys

2002-05-21 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > Michael Adams wrote: > > When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take about a full > > second to be actioned. Specifically punctuation keys like ["] and [']. I > > am running KDE on a P3 500. Only some of the punctuation keys are l

Re: [newbie] Slow keys

2002-05-21 Thread FemmeFatale
Michael Adams wrote: > > When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take about a full second > to be actioned. Specifically punctuation keys like ["] and [']. I am running > KDE on a P3 500. Only some of the punctuation keys are like this. Full stops, > commas and even the square bracke

[newbie] slow mnt in konqueror file manager

2002-04-07 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I'm running LM8.2 on a Dell laptop. An irritating problem is that whenever I click on mnt in Konqueror it takes minutes to list its sub-directories. It appears to freeze until it finally displays. Anyone else run into this? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mand

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation - resolved!

2001-12-22 Thread Brian Parish
On Friday 21 December 2001 3:32 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:48:37 +1100 > > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > Just to rule a line under this one - my problem with this is definitely > > resolved. Many thanks to Ed in particular for much per

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation - resolved!

2001-12-21 Thread Mark Weaver
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:48:37 +1100 Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > Just to rule a line under this one - my problem with this is definitely > resolved. Many thanks to Ed in particular for much perserverance and some > off list help as well. > > It ma

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 07:55, you wrote: > I shutdown by "right click | logoff | choose Halt" from the KDE desktop. > Problem? don't guess that caused it, but could you also send the output of "cat /proc/pci", and "cat /proc/interrupts" as well as an "ifconfig"? if ya wanna send them to me o

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-18 Thread Brian Parish
I shutdown by "right click | logoff | choose Halt" from the KDE desktop. Problem? The dmesg files are attached in the message that came back to me. I have attached them again here. Having just rebooted I see that I misquoted the message issued at startx - it's actually something about host

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
thanks for correcting MY typo you were correct. > Yup - I knew about find files, but I needed the right file name - I guess > maybe dmesg is what you meant, not dmseg. Assuming that to be correct, > here are the files from both the server and a client machine. how do you shut down the compu

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-17 Thread Brian Parish
Yup - I knew about find files, but I needed the right file name - I guess maybe dmesg is what you meant, not dmseg. Assuming that to be correct, here are the files from both the server and a client machine. I don't believe I am piggy-backing by the way - it was my question you originally resp

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
to locate a file on your computer, there are a few good utilities, the one I use in KDE is found at K(menu bar bottom left corner, like "start" in M$ prod.) > Applications > file tools > find files. dmesg is the log of the boot up messages that you see if you use a text boot up. /var/log/dmseg

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-17 Thread Brian Parish
Now you're just trying to make me look greener right? :-) Where would I find a dmseg file? ...is this on the server, the client, or both? ypbind is not running. My network is of the 192.168.0.1 variety with a shared ppp dialup. The slowess occurs on the clients, although of course that cou

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
post the output of your dmseg file, do you have ypbind running? do you have a local network? is this box the dhcp server or a client? On Sunday 16 December 2001 23:20, you wrote: > Thanks for the responses to this. I don't think that there are any extra > servers running. One thing that may

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-16 Thread Brian Parish
Thanks for the responses to this. I don't think that there are any extra servers running. One thing that may be related is that if I run linuxconf and quit, it complains that squid isn't running and will start it if I let it do so. Could this be implicated? I notice that during the shutdown

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-14 Thread Ed Tharp
nope ypbind is for NIS do you connect to a sun OS machine? turn it off and see. On Friday 14 December 2001 16:26, you wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:21:21 -0500 > > Ed Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed frantically in their message: > > On Friday 14 December 2001 06:37, you wrote: > > > On Fri

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:21:21 -0500 Ed Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed frantically in their message: > On Friday 14 December 2001 06:37, you wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 06:10:08 -0500 > > > > Ed Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > > have you both considered t

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-14 Thread Ed Tharp
On Friday 14 December 2001 06:37, you wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 06:10:08 -0500 > > Ed Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > have you both considered turning off all the servers possible ? this > > sounds to me like a dns , routed or ypbind server running (that y

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 06:10:08 -0500 Ed Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > have you both considered turning off all the servers possible ? this sounds > to me like a dns , routed or ypbind server running (that you don't need, and > is not correctly configured. ar

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-14 Thread Ed Tharp
have you both considered turning off all the servers possible ? this sounds to me like a dns , routed or ypbind server running (that you don't need, and is not correctly configured. are you trying to run a local DNS server? (as oppsosed to a local cacheing name server) do you have ypbind runnin

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:40:46 +1100 Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> frantically pecked out this message: > I have a total of 4 Linux machines (OK, some of them dual boot, but let's not > talk about that) on a home/office LAN. One of them is a dedicated server, > which offers some NFS expor

[newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-13 Thread Brian Parish
I have a total of 4 Linux machines (OK, some of them dual boot, but let's not talk about that) on a home/office LAN. One of them is a dedicated server, which offers some NFS exports. Everything works very nicely, except that programs take forever to load the first time. Just to fire up a kon

Re: [newbie] Slow Printing using Cups

2001-08-13 Thread s
Believe it or not, upping the dpi also fixes this sometimes. At least it did mine. I have an epson, but with default settings, it prints extremely light and really slow. So upping the dpi not only makes it look better, but make the output come about normal. Don't know if it will help you fo

[newbie] Slow Printing using Cups

2001-08-13 Thread Geof Steichen
Does anyone know why printing with cups is so slow? I have used other distros with this printer using lpr and it prints near the rated speed but with cups drivers, it prints quite slow. The printer is Hp855c parallel on AMD K7-900, Asus A7V mb, 256MB ram, MDK 8.0 I have tried all 4 of the dr

Re: [newbie] slow performance whist downloading normal ?

2001-07-20 Thread Rob
On Friday 20 July 2001 22:38, you wrote: > On Friday 20 July 2001 00:54, Rob wrote: > > Whilst downloading from the internet my general machine performance seems > > to fall away terribly. > > the machine is no slouch 900 athlon 512m memory only on a 56k modem too. > > is this sluggishness normal?

[newbie] slow performance whist downloading normal ?

2001-07-19 Thread Rob
Whilst downloading from the internet my general machine performance seems to fall away terribly. the machine is no slouch 900 athlon 512m memory only on a 56k modem too. is this sluggishness normal? What could be wrong ? Thanks Rob

[newbie] Slow CD-Installation

2001-06-24 Thread Thomas_Pfisterer
Hello Newbie-List ! I tried to install Mandrake 7.2 on my AMD K6-2 400 with a Tyan Trinity Board and 196 MB RAM on the second HDD from my Mitsumi 24Speed CD-Rom (autoboot). Everything is going fine and fast until i choose the packages. When it wants to install the packages i selected (i tried dif

Re: [newbie] Slow PPP connection after DNS change at ISP

2001-06-05 Thread Jim MacDonald
6/5/01 5:03:19 PM, Paul Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tuesday, Jun 05, 2001, Jim MacDonald wrote: > >> I am running a dual boot W98 & LM7.2 and KDE 2.0.1. with a Supra Express 56K v90 >> external modem on a PII-233 with 128 megs RAM. The system also has an internal >> Lucent Winmodem. All

Re: [newbie] Slow PPP connection after DNS change at ISP

2001-06-05 Thread Paul Cox
On Tuesday, Jun 05, 2001, Jim MacDonald wrote: > I am running a dual boot W98 & LM7.2 and KDE 2.0.1. with a Supra Express 56K v90 > external modem on a PII-233 with 128 megs RAM. The system also has an internal > Lucent Winmodem. All was well with the system. My ISP changed their server on May

RE: [newbie] Slow PPP connection after DNS change at ISP

2001-06-05 Thread Jim MacDonald
6/5/01 1:59:35 PM, "Tyrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello. > >I have a modem Diamond Supra Express 56ePRO when I configured it to connect >to internet under linux Mandrake 7.2. I use the velocity 115200. Then the >internet connecction was very slow. Then I changed it for 57600. And then it >w

RE: [newbie] Slow PPP connection after DNS change at ISP

2001-06-05 Thread Tyrell
Hello. I have a modem Diamond Supra Express 56ePRO when I configured it to connect to internet under linux Mandrake 7.2. I use the velocity 115200. Then the internet connecction was very slow. Then I changed it for 57600. And then it was fast as in Windows 98. You can probe this change. Go to /e

[newbie] Slow PPP connection after DNS change at ISP

2001-06-05 Thread Jim MacDonald
Hi, I am running a dual boot W98 & LM7.2 and KDE 2.0.1. with a Supra Express 56K v90 external modem on a PII-233 with 128 megs RAM. The system also has an internal Lucent Winmodem. All was well with the system. My ISP changed their server on May 30, 2001. The new system changed their DNS #'s fr

[newbie] Slow network on Linux-Mandrake 7.2

2001-06-02 Thread Nathan Owens
Sorry for reposting this, but I forgot a subject. I'm having a problem with my internet connection on Linux-Mandrake. I've just installed LM 7.2, and the connection is very slow. I know it's not the servers because my Windows connection works just fine, so I'm trying to figure out if my configura

Re: [newbie] Slow hdd access

2001-04-10 Thread Nima S. Panahi
with > timing chatter. > > Civileme > > > On Monday 09 April 2001 07:57, you wrote: > > Check the hdparm settings. > > > > Moose > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Michael Falzon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, April 09,

Re: [newbie] Slow hdd access

2001-04-09 Thread Civileme
with timing chatter. Civileme On Monday 09 April 2001 07:57, you wrote: > Check the hdparm settings. > > Moose > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Falzon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 10:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newb

RE: [newbie] Slow hdd access

2001-04-09 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Check the hdparm settings. Moose -Original Message- From: Michael Falzon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Slow hdd access hi all I'm runing mandrake 6.1 with a ata 100 m/b and ata 66 hdd i'm sur

RE: [newbie] Slow hdd access

2001-04-09 Thread Mcintosh, Duncan
Try Mandrake 8.0 > -Message d'origine- > De: Michael Falzon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Date: lundi 9 avril 2001 16:22 > À:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet: [newbie] Slow hdd access > > hi all > I'm runing mandrake 6.1 with a ata 100 m/b

[newbie] Slow hdd access

2001-04-09 Thread Michael Falzon
hi all     I'm runing mandrake 6.1 with a ata 100 m/b and ata 66 hdd i'm sure that the drive is not way running up to speed, how do i set it up to run faster ( i have try to use webadmin it ok till i have to reboot )   Michael FalzonLast Of The BBs SysopMozy's Swamp BBs & Red Dwarf BBsht

Re: [newbie] Slow computer with MD 7.2

2001-01-17 Thread -michael-
My suggestion is send me your box! drool drool "Blomquist, Niklas" wrote: > > Hi all! > > I have just download the MD 7.2 and installed it om my computer. > > It's a Asus AV7, AMD 1000MHz, 256MB Ram, 3 Harddrives. > > I magages to get the ATA100 to work, but it s l o w. It takes log time > be

Re: [newbie] Slow computer with MD 7.2

2001-01-17 Thread abe
hey, I'll tell you what I do to make mandrake really scream. 1. HDparm. Read this article. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/272 That oughta get your hard drive going as bit faster. 2. recompile the kernel and get rid of everything you don't use. If you've never done this, email me personally

[newbie] Slow computer with MD 7.2

2001-01-17 Thread Blomquist, Niklas
Hi all! I have just download the MD 7.2 and installed it om my computer. It's a Asus AV7, AMD 1000MHz, 256MB Ram, 3 Harddrives. I magages to get the ATA100 to work, but it s l o w. It takes log time before the program starts and it takes log time to start the computer. I did run MD 6 or 7 befo

Re: [newbie] slow internet connection

2000-11-27 Thread patrick
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, you wrote: > > I have recently got my computer to connect to the internet after a month > of agrivation trying to get it to work. Rather annoying when you find > out all you had to do was change the authorisation protocol. Anyways > now that i can connect i am experience sl

[newbie] slow internet connection

2000-11-26 Thread Keldmar
I have recently got my computer to connect to the internet after a month of agrivation trying to get it to work.  Rather annoying when you find out all you had to do was change the authorisation protocol.  Anyways now that i can connect i am experience slow connections and was wondering if a

[newbie] Slow Gnome App startups

2000-11-20 Thread Fred Schroeder
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 7.2, and all seems to be well, except that it seems when I start Gnome apps while in KDE, they take forever to pop up. I start them, get the spinning disk on the taskbar, then it will go away, and sometimes 4 or five minutes later the app will pop up. I tried starti

Re: [newbie] slow internet connection

2000-10-12 Thread Austin L. Denyer
> I have heard that increasing the transmission unit size can make a noticable > difference, but I don't have any experience with that. Perhaps someone else > on this list can discuss this and other speed-ups. This is why the rush to > DSL variants, cable modems, etc., i.e. they can be (double o

[newbie] slow internet connection

2000-10-12 Thread Jeff Malka
I am one of these poor slobs still using a modem to get onto the internet. I am running Mandrake 7.1 and KDE. I noticed that even though my modem connects at 115,000 and email is down and uploaded fairly fast, Netscape (I am not ready to use a text browser) seems to take forever to bring pages u

Re: [newbie] slow printer performance

2000-09-22 Thread Larry Marshall
> Larry Marshall says that another 64MB RAM will not improve S.O. or printer > performance much on my setup (described in my original query below). Uh...no I didn't. I really have no opinion on that subject. Not sure who said that or whether they are correct or not. > a possible alternative

Re: [newbie] slow printer performance

2000-09-22 Thread Fabian Jennings
ower than windows with some inkjet machines for > some reason (I have no info why). > > Steve W. > - Original Message - > From: "Fabian Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:16 PM > Subject:

Re: [newbie] slow printer performance

2000-09-20 Thread Larry Marshall
> StarOffice is a resource hog. If you aren't running a P3 600+ with like > 128MB RAM, it's slow. It's NOT Linux's system (well, the O/S anyhow). Heck Steve, even those numbers don't make it load/run at a decent pace. I've seen nothing like it in the Linux world. I'm praying that Sun does re

Re: [[newbie] slow printer performance]

2000-09-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
Fabian Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a PC pentium 233 with 32MB RAM, and am dual booting > between Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and Win 95. My printer is an HP > Deskjet 870Cxi. Under Windows, it prints as expected - 4 to > 5 pages of black and white text per minute, or thereabouts. > Under

Re: [newbie] slow printer performance

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
Fabian Jennings wrote: > > I have a PC pentium 233 with 32MB RAM, and am dual booting > between Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and Win 95. My printer is an HP > Deskjet 870Cxi. Under Windows, it prints as expected - 4 to > 5 pages of black and white text per minute, or thereabouts. > Under Linux-Mandrake, h

Re: [newbie] slow printer performance

2000-09-19 Thread Steve Weltman
lower than windows with some inkjet machines for some reason (I have no info why). Steve W. - Original Message - From: "Fabian Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:16 PM Subject: [newbie] slow printer performance >

RE: [newbie] slow telnet & ssl

2000-08-21 Thread Oliver Stieber
i'm using the ip address, it's fine from the local machine, but vslow from anywhere else. with various clents etc > -Original Message- > From: John Couturier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 21 August 2000 13:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [

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