On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> 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.
Being a K6 II user, i realize that some socket 7 mbs do not recognize
more than 64M of ram. Check it if your box is using all the 128M of ram.
Actually i was using an ASUS P5A-B mb with a K6/2/266 128M ram, there
was no problem. Then i bought a new system of a 450 CPU with MSI
mb. The only difference between the mbs is MSI has 2 more slots (1 PCI and
1 ISA) and ASUS uses ALi1542 while MSI uses ALi1541 chip.
I had 3 awfull nights with hdparm and syslogs till i realise the ram was not
detected fully :-(
making a '#top' may save you from a lot of trouble.
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