I had too many truetype fonts installed. On Thu December 11 2003 10:16 pm, Sterling Chavis wrote: > I have a Toshiba P25 laptop. P4 3.0GHz HT Processor, 512 MB RAM, 60GB Hard > Drive with Gentoo successfully running on it, but it seems extremely slow, > and seems to have an excessive ammount of hard drive activity for each > program I start, and gets a lot worse with each program I start, although I > don't feel I run enough programs simultaneously to slow it down this much. > Sometimes takes upwards of 20-30 seconds just to start KCalc. My hdparm > settings stay successfully set as follows: > > /dev/hda: > multcount = 16 (on) > IO_support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 8 (on) > geometry = 7296/255/63, sectors = 117210240, start = 0 > > Output of free: > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 513708 507052 6656 0 11716 249132 > -/+ buffers/cache: 246204 267504 > Swap: 1004052 40184 963868 > > I've searched for several days, but being a total newbie I'm not even sure > what to search or look for, although I've tried. What other things might I > search for and check to improve performance? Could it be a memory > management issue? I have my swap set to 1024MB. This is a fast laptop and > Knoppix runs very fast and smooth on it, I think Gentoo should too but I > probably missed something. > > I love Linux and what it stands for and I am very willing to go through the > learning curve to make the switch. However, with programs loading this > slowly it's just not productive enough to use for my business, but I DON'T > want to have to go back to... well... that other crappy, bloated, > restrictive OS. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Regards, > Sterling > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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