On Thursday 30 January 2003 12:56 pm, et wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:42 am, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of iggy > > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:08 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install > > > > On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:53 am, robin wrote: > > > iggy wrote: > > > >dear all, > > > > > > > >***symptoms*** i recently installed 9.0 and have noticed that it is > > > > painfully slow. i'm very surprised as 8.2 ran like a bat out of > > > > hell. > > > > > > > >***pertinate info*** msi mobo(i don't remember the model offhand), > > > > amd 1700+ cpu, 256 mb ram (unknown manufacturer), wd 40gb hard drive, > > > > sony 16x dvd, verbatim 40x,12x, 48x cdrw, d-link 10/100 network card > > > > and hub, g-force 2 64mb w/ tv out, sound blaster audigy mp3 sound > > > > card, (and i hope i didn't forget anything else! lol) > > > > > > > >***specifics*** slow starting kde, slow starting each and every app, > > > > fast > > > > > >logging out, fast boot to graphical log in. > > > > > > > >any additional info you may need, please feal free to ask (i'm a n00b, > > > > so i may be RTFM on how to retreive that info!) > > > > > > > >as always, thanks to those volunteers and others whom take time to > > > > generously help out those of us with less experience. > > > > > > An obvious question, but have you checked to see what daemons are > > > running (Mandrake Control Center->System->Services)? A couple of times > > > I've clicked on a package I didn't actually need during installation, > > > so then Mandrake obligingly started the appropriate demon. Some of > > > these can be real resource-hoggers, fetchmail being one of the wrost > > > offenders. > > > > > > Sir Robin > > > > thanks for the tip. i had noticed that when i rebooted (i dual boot with > > win98 for a few games i have) that the squid deamon was failing to stop > > normally. i attempted to stop the deamon through the services menu and > > it failed to stop also. i then uninstalled it. > > > > also, i noticed that mysql and postgresql were both installed. since i'm > > only > > interested in learing mysql (for now), i stopped the postgresql deamon > > and uninstalled it also. the innd deamon ran installed and running. > > since i'm not creating my own news server i stopped the deamon and > > removed the program. > > > > if anything i've done seems (or is) wrong, please feel free to let me > > know. > > > > thanks, again. > > -iggy > > I would suggest you turn of DNS, cacheing name server, named, routed and yp > services and other YP services (unless you need them and understand how to > correctly configure them
seems that named (a DNS) would be the only one i need of the ones you mentioned as i am attempting to setup a server/dumb terminal network as per www.ltsp.org and need dns. the rest were deactivated as per your suggestion. Dennis M. had mentioned that on his sytem leaving the bios set to auto detect contributed to a slow and unstable system and suggested doing a hd detect in bios. perhaps with both suggestions i can get this thing moving! thank you (and Dennis M.) for your time and suggestion. -iggy
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