Jason Bodnar wrote:
>
> I recently upgraded my box to AMD K6-2 350 with 128MB PC-100 SDRAM on an ASUS
> P5A motherboard. Before that it had a Cyrix P150 with 64 MB EDO and a Shuttle
> motherboard.
>
> I reinstalled Mandrake 6.0 with the latest from one of the mirrors. I've
> installed any updates that have come out using MandrakeUpdate.
>
> When I start an application there is a considerable delay before the
> application actually begins. This happens both in X and from the console. For
> example, I was using gnumeric the other day and it took close to a minute
> before the window was displayed. But I don't think this is related to a
> specific set of applications because I've noticed delays running emacs from the
> console and running man even takes about 15 seconds before it displays the page.
Check to see if there's anything mentioned in the system logs about a
problem.
Next, check to see if hard drive speed seems reasonable with something
like 'hdparm -tT /dev/hda' (or whatever drive you're using for Linux).
Finally, check 'dmesg' to see if the hardware is correctly setup and
detected. Bogomips should be somewhere around 700, I'd imagine.
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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