Hi Charlie I guess updates over the ISDN line was much slower since ISDN is, well, typically slower then DSL :)
The first boot was probably slower because it was doing readahead profiling? -Jonathan On 06/10/2010 10:33, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > An almost happy school teacher! Do we know what causes that initial > boot slowdown? > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:14:01 +0300 > From: Prekates Alexandros <[email protected]> > To: xubuntu-users <[email protected]> > Subject: [xubuntu-users] Installation issues in school lab. > > > Hello to the list. > > > I'm teacher and i've installed Xubuntu10.04 in two school labs . > 1) 9 PCs : 256MB ,P4 adsl internet connection > 2) 8 PCs : 756MB, P4 ,isdn internet connection > > Overall i managed to have a usable lab with software suitable for my > students, and almost all hardware recognized (web camera,scanner,sound). > So a great thanks to foss community and xubuntu. > > In the spirit of futher advance i want to share the tho major issues i > encountered: > a) in the isdn lab the installer was taking much much time possible > getting updates? , and i had to unplug network cable to have a cd-only > installation (with the intention to put apt-cache in the server) > > b) in both labs the first time i booted ,almost in all PCs, the system > was extremely slow and according to system monitor more than 90% of ram > was in use! Strangely i'could find a process to justify that so i guess > the kernel must be responisible,but how ? > In the second reboot ram utilization dropped to normal levels of 120MB > most and system was usable again. > > > Thanks. > Alexander. > > -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
