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| 170173 | 2003-08-24 08:42:00 | I just got Linux Mandrake, and I all so have windows XP home windows XP works fine but when I go on to Linux it slows down, when you open home it talks about 1min to open (and there on the same hard dire but on different partitions) |
Gods-Hitman (1419) | ||
| 170174 | 2003-08-24 08:53:00 | Here's a similar thread-www.linuxquestions.org KDE and Gnome(especially on Mandrake/Redhat distros but good as intros to Linux-ducks for cover) are resource hogs(you can use other Window Managers) and XP is still loading processes in the background even though the desktop is displayed. Also Linux can be optimized for your processor/system. Beyond the scope of the forum-ie it's involved requiring compiling of the kernel ;). |
mark.p (383) | ||
| 170175 | 2003-08-24 09:35:00 | Use a "Light-Weight" Window Manager if you're running anything under a P300 with less than 128MB RAM... Also, dont forget to stop the un-needed services at startup, there's no point having SSH loading if you're not part of a Linux network, and might need it.. ;-) Otherwise, Compiling KDE and Gnome will speed them up quite a fair bit :-) Compiled code (from your system) is always faster than pre-built rpm's! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 170176 | 2003-08-24 10:30:00 | i have a 1.7ghz pro 352mb ram 32 mb graxif card (bad speller) |
Gods-Hitman (1419) | ||
| 170177 | 2003-08-24 10:38:00 | Should be going fine - I am using RH9 on an AMD850 with 256M RAM and 9M video RAM. | JohnD (509) | ||
| 170178 | 2003-08-24 10:39:00 | 8M video card that is! | JohnD (509) | ||
| 170179 | 2003-08-24 10:56:00 | The July APC magazine had a section on how to check and improve on the performance of Linux. One of the suggestions for a slow system was the IDE hard drive running in 16-bit mode. You might just want to check that this is not an issue for you. In a Shell Konsole su - to root and then enter this (assuming you have the one hard drive): hdparm -Tt /dev/hda You should get something like this: [root@origin root]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.93 seconds =137.63 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.29 seconds = 27.95 MB/sec To list your current settings enter this: hdparm /dev/hda and the output should look similar to this: [root@origin root]# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 2491/255/63, sectors = 40021632, start = 0 [root@origin root]# Post back here with your hdparm /dev/hda output. It is probably a long shot however, but having your Home take a minute to load sounds as if something is not quite right. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 170180 | 2003-08-24 11:40:00 | My limited experience with Linux I think the same as you do. I'm pretty sure it must be due to Windows preloading everything it possibly can. Just guessing. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 170181 | 2003-08-25 01:29:00 | Jen.... I just love it when you talk......well.... techie :8} | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
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