hi all, RL has three things that slow it down over other distros:
- ext3 file system by default - slower than ext2 because of the journal writes and syncs necessary. - kautorun - this app has to poll the cdrom. with some ide controllers/cdroms it can really eat up cpu resources. on this old dell laptop i'm using now [pentium/mmx 233] it only takes 1% when active, .35% when inactive. but others have reported 10% or more cpu time. - kernel inefficiency - the currently shipped RL kernel has some speed issues in it. of course, having kde2 as the default wm/desktop doesn't help, and since we don't load opengl drivers by default the video may be sluggish. thanks! joe Joseph Cheek CTO and Founder, Redmond Linux Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.redmondlinux.org Redmond Linux. Linux for the desktop. [tm] On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Sandy Oppegard wrote: > I think someone else may have eluded to this, but having a lot of processes > running in the background can slow your machine to a crawl as well. Using > something like KDE System Guard can identify running processes and let you > shut down or kill the ones that are hogging resources. I currently have > Mandrake 8.1 running on a P166 with 94 mb of ram. While it's no "speed > demon", it runs faster than it did when I had Windows 95 installed on it! > However, some applications seem to hang on to resources and not let go, even > after they've been closed(K-Office will do this).........sort of like some > windows apps do :) At least in Linux you can actually find the offender and > "kill him" without having to "reboot"! I agree with Rodd's comments about > the windows managers and apps designed to run on newer machines. If you're > using an old machine, forget Enlightenment and Ximian's Evolution! :) Good > Window Managers for old machines are Black Box, fvwm and WindowMaker. > > Sandy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ahrenstorff, Rodd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Lanny'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "RedmondLunix" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:10 PM > Subject: RE: [rl-users] Redmond linux slow? > > > > This distro is not shipping with object-prelinked RPMs and may not be > > optimized for all processors. However, most Linux distibutions aren't. > > Running RPMs optimized for i686 processors on your Pentium II won't help > the > > situation any. So most distros don't perform the optimization process for > > every included package. They can't predict what processor your using. > > However, you can download prelinked and optimized RPMs from Texstar at > > www.pclinuxonline.com. > > > > Another issue often brought up by persons new to Linux concerns the > > comparison of Win98 and their new Linux distro. Often they say it is > > slower. Well Windows 98 is four years old! The GUI is prehistoric by KDE > > standards. With all the "eye candy" provided in the new Linux desktops a > > 233Mhz computer will run a little slow. But install Windows XP and you'll > > get the same results. I personally have installed Mandrake 8.1, Redhat > 7.2, > > Elx Linux pre1, Redmond 44, and Win2k on my main home PC (1.3Ghz AMD, > 256MB > > DDR RAM, ATA 100, etc..). There is little difference in speed between all > > of them. I have also installed them all on my spare PC (233Mhz PII, 256MB > > RAM, ATA 33, etc..) and again they run about the same speed. > > > > If you use older equipment you need to use "lighter" windows managers with > > less "eye candy". There are many available in Linux. Unfortunately, old > > hardware and "light weight" is not the future of the desktop market. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lanny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:59 PM > > To: RedmondLunix > > Subject: [rl-users] Redmond linux slow? > > > > > > I have heard alot of people say that RedmondLinux is slow. Is this correct > > and if so why? > > > > Lanny > > > > - > > -- > > rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of > > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/ > > - > > -- > > rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of > > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/ > > > > - > -- > rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/ > - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/
