Hey.
I know its probably academic but are all the people complaining of slowness (it is slow to be fair) checking to make sure they have 32bit transfers, DMA, X66+ and read-ahead etc ON? as root hdparm -t -T /dev/hda That will do a speed test. Anything less than 12.02 on a UDMA 33 HD/Mobo, 333mhz+ with 196mb SDRAM is SLOW and you probably need to set up your disk tweaks. Also, it wont remember your settings when you log out. So you need to go to http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html and have a look see at that little reference. :O) L. On Wednesday 16 Jan 2002 8:40 am, Joseph Cheek wrote: > 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/
