Guest Coyotepup Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 This is my system. Dell Dimension XPS D300, PII 300 mhz, RAM 192MB, ATI Rage 3D Pro (AGP), 7GB HD, onboard sound, Mandrake 9.0 clean install with all current updates, KDE When I go to open a program it takes a long time to open. Examples When I go to login it takes over two and half minutes `for the desktop to load. Mozilla takes 54 seconds to load to the point where it starts to connect to the site for my homepage. Mahjongg takes 34 seconds to load. Is this normal or should it be faster then this? It seems to me that it was faster when I first loaded the mandrake 9.0. Is there some maintience like defrag or anything that might help? The computer and Linux seems to work fine other then taking so long to open applications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 it's not linux.. it's kde.. KDE 3 is very resource intensive especially for a relatively low end computer such as P2-300. Try a lighter desktop, I suggest IceWM or XFCE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 Agree with the above. I have a laptop with similar specs and use icewm with good results. One other thing I did notice that had a substantial impact on performance- disabling network starting at boot. I have broadband and it seemed that if I wasn't connected to the internet at the time I booted, performance suffered greatly when network was enabled at boot. This was true even for apps that had nothing to do with the internet; there was just a big drain on performance. You can disable it in Mandrake Control Center>System>Services. While your there, you might want to check to see if anything else is starting at boot that you don't need. Now when I want to connect to the internet with my laptop, I have to connect with mcc>Network&Internet>Connection but it's worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 i think there's something wrong. i got a similar system and my apps don't take nearly as much time to load. even so, kde is still way to slow so i go with fluxbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 Look at what is being loaded at startup and is continuously running. Maybe you have unneeded servers or services running. Also, as suggested, you can try a different desktop. How about gnome, is it quicker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 I found running Samba and Lisa at start-up really slowed my machine down. Maybe worth a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jglen490 Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 It can also be the hard drive, if DMA is available but not turned on. You can check this out with the hdparm utility. Do a man hdparm for option details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fengazer Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 I have Mdk9 with KDE on a PII-300 with 192MB RAM and although it's kinda slow, it's far from that slow. Without Lisa or Samba running, I have enough RAM to use a photo background on my desktop(s), and I don't find it to be a problem. Sorry I don't know what might help you; some of the suggestions on the board look reasonable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coyotepup Posted December 26, 2002 Report Share Posted December 26, 2002 I went to Mandrake Control Center>System>Services and this is what I found. alsa, stopped, on boot checked apmd, running, on boot checked atd, running, on boot checked chargen, stopped, on boot unchecked chargen-udp, stopped, on boot unchecked crond, running, on boot checked cups, running, on boot checked cups-lpd, stopped, on boot unchecked cvs, stopped, on boot unchecked daytime, stopped, on boot unchecked daytime-udp, stopped, on boot unchecked devfsd, running, on boot checked dm, running, on boot checked echo, stopped, on boot unchecked echo-udp, stopped, on boot unchecked fam, stopped, on boot checked gpm, running, on boot checked internet, running, on boot checked ipvsadm, running, on boot checked keytable, running, on boot checked kheader, running, on boot checked linuxconf, running, on boot checked linuxconf-web, stopped, on boot unchecked mtink, stopped, on boot unchecked netfs, running, on boot checked network, running, on boot checked ntpd, running, on boot checked oki4daemon, stopped, on boot unchecked partmon, running, on boot checked portmap, running, on boot checked postfix, running, on boot checked random, running, on boot checked rawdevices, stopped, on boot checked rsync, stopped, on boot unchecked saslauthd, running, on boot checked servers, stopped, on boot unchecked services, stopped, on boot unchecked sound, running, on boot checked syslog, running, on boot checked time, stopped, on boot unchecked time-udp, stopped, on boot unchecked upsmon, stopped, on boot checked webmin, running, on boot checked wine, running, on boot checked xadmin, stopped, on boot unchecked xfs, running, on boot checked xinetd, running, on boot checked. This is with KDE running. IceWM is alot faster loading but the programs opening is about the same time. I'm not sure what I need running and what I don't need. The computer gets used for the internet alot, and office of school work. I tried running man hdparm as jglen490 suggested in terminal but it came up "No manual entry for hdparm". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 26, 2002 Report Share Posted December 26, 2002 Check this thread re system startup services and paring things down: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...&highlight=slow See also the following link for a description of the various startup services: http://www.kernow.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/adm.../aservice2.html I don't know what to tell you to turn off because I don't know how you are using your computer. Checking the above will give you some kind of idea what you can/should turn off based upon your needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted December 26, 2002 Report Share Posted December 26, 2002 If you want hdparm, just google for linux hdparm and download/install it. Then you will have a man or --help entry for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wessellj Posted December 26, 2002 Report Share Posted December 26, 2002 How is your swap space set up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 26, 2002 Report Share Posted December 26, 2002 I think hdparm is on the install CDs. Try installing using mcc>Software Management>Install Software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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