On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 06:10, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Still no joy. The CDROM still takes ages to mount. It almost as if > something is tying up a bunch of low-level system stuff until it expires > on a time-out. This is really interfering with using Mandrake 9.0. I might > blame it on slow hardware (a 100MHz Pentium), except no such delays occur with SuSE > Linux running on the same hardware (dual boot) >
Get rid of Supermount altogether. Then make sure the CDROM is clean. Then set the hdparm on that drive. Pray once, then try again. > During boot, it takes ninety seconds to start up devFS. Is this normal? Get rid of Supermount and autofs. > Subsequent operations from the CD are slow too: 29 seconds to ls a directory, > 14 seconds fo unmount the CD. Set the hdparm for this drive! Really! > It takes over two minutes to start Mandrake Command Centre. Most of the time > it appears to be doing nothing. It takes a minute to get to the place where > I can turn system services on and off. Set the hdparm for the primary drive as well...AND make sure your path statements in your /etc/ld.so.conf are set properly and ldconfig is run again to rebuild the lib path cache... -- Thu Mar 27 09:15:00 EST 2003 09:15:00 up 5 days, 20:02, 3 users, load average: 1.19, 1.15, 1.17 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** > No manual is ever necessary. May I politely interject here: BULLSHIT. That's the biggest Apple lie of all! (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces.)
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