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hi all,
I don't entirely consider myself a newbie in the linux world, have used
suse for a while and before that mandrake and red hat. I just
installed suse 9.3 on a machine with a 1.8ghz processor, 256 MB RAM.
Although I know the ram in lacking, the performance is horrible. my
setup is windows on the first 15 GB of the drive and linux on the last
10GB. I took the defaults of the partitioning scheme with swap of 500
and the rest as / with reiser. everything about this install is
extremely slooooow. the software installation through yast takes
forever. it often stalls on the "setting up linker cache" after
installing the software for five minutes or more. internet browsing and
just general use is dragging. can anyone let me know if my setup is
causing this or what? also, the windows portion on the install works
fine. speed is what i would expect with this machine.
Thanks,
M
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rhltechie@gmail.com wrote:
hi all,
I don't entirely consider myself a newbie in the linux world, have used
suse for a while and before that mandrake and red hat. I just
installed suse 9.3 on a machine with a 1.8ghz processor, 256 MB RAM.
Although I know the ram in lacking, the performance is horrible. my
setup is windows on the first 15 GB of the drive and linux on the last
10GB. I took the defaults of the partitioning scheme with swap of 500
and the rest as / with reiser. everything about this install is
extremely slooooow. the software installation through yast takes
forever. it often stalls on the "setting up linker cache" after
installing the software for five minutes or more. internet browsing and
just general use is dragging. can anyone let me know if my setup is
causing this or what? also, the windows portion on the install works
fine. speed is what i would expect with this machine.
Thanks,
M
I general you are advised to make different partition for /boot, /home and /
But I do not think this is your problem...
Could you please check if you got any servers running? eg.
Apache/MySQL/PHP/FTP etc.
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Thanks for the reply. I usually do partition with a separate /boot and
/home but when it came up like this, i just left it, but you are right
i would not think this would be an issue with my slowness. I am not
running any servers, but I did leave out I am running kde. still, i
have used kde for a while and never had these kinds of issues.
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rhltechie@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I usually do partition with a separate /boot and
/home but when it came up like this, i just left it, but you are right
i would not think this would be an issue with my slowness. I am not
running any servers, but I did leave out I am running kde. still, i
have used kde for a while and never had these kinds of issues.
The new KDE is always slower then the old one... the recommend more then 256
MB RAM.
Have you tried IceWM or WindowMaker? That should speed you up and IceWM
gices you a nice GUI as well.
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rhltechie@gmail.com wrote:
fine. speed is what i would expect with this machine.
Disable IPV6 in
/etc/sysconfig/windowmanager
and add:
alias net_pf_10 false
to /etc/modprobe.conf.local. Reboot. Come back if that does not help.
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Patrick Grimbergen wrote:
The new KDE is always slower then the old one... the recommend more then
256 MB RAM.
That's bullshit.
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I have tried WM and icewm, they just dont seem as ... hmm...nice? lol i
know i sound like a windowz freak, but i just think you should be able
to have a functional system that still has some flashy points. granted
i do use the command line most of the time, its nice to have the other
waiting around. also, i switched to icewm a few minutes ago to try
some things out and yes it is slower in kde, but my yast is still
horribly slow in icewm. the installation of programs just takes
forever and a day!
thanks for your help.
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rhltechie@gmail.com wrote:
I understand the first, what is the second alias in the modprobe?
In /etc/modprobe.conf it is listed as alias net-pf-10 ipv6, but you can
override that in /etc/modproble.conf.local. What that does is basically
switch off loading the kernel modules for IPV6.
BTW, if you do that, you should also teach postfix and named not to use
IPV6.
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rhltechie@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried WM and icewm, they just dont seem as ... hmm...nice? lol i
know i sound like a windowz freak, but i just think you should be able
to have a functional system that still has some flashy points. granted
i do use the command line most of the time, its nice to have the other
waiting around. also, i switched to icewm a few minutes ago to try
some things out and yes it is slower in kde, but my yast is still
horribly slow in icewm. the installation of programs just takes
forever and a day!
thanks for your help.
Try out some of the other themes, there is a theme around for IceWM that
makes it look so much Like WinXP that even I would not notice the
difference...
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R.F. Pels wrote:
Patrick Grimbergen wrote:
The new KDE is always slower then the old one... the recommend more then
256 MB RAM.
That's bullshit.
What is? the first or the second?
for the first: They hope to make KDE4 faster then KDE3, but they also state
that this will be a hard job and they might not make it... so probably it
will not...
for the second.. they do recommend 256 or higher... I don't have a box
currently, but I will inform you as soon as I have my SuSE 10.0 box coming
somewhere next week...
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ok, well nothing worked. i tried reinstalling 9.3 with the same
results. i downloaded a copy of 10.0 RC1, and it works great. even
the install took 1/4 of the time. i am not sure what the deal was with
the 9.3, i used versions before it and now after it. apparently my
machine just did not care for it. but the 10.0 works really great,
even with kde.
thanks
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rhltechie@gmail.com wrote:
ok, well nothing worked. i tried reinstalling 9.3 with the same
results. i downloaded a copy of 10.0 RC1, and it works great. even
the install took 1/4 of the time. i am not sure what the deal was with
the 9.3, i used versions before it and now after it. apparently my
machine just did not care for it. but the 10.0 works really great,
even with kde.
thanks
Well... it's still technical stuff... nobody ever knows what is going to
happen next...
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