Guest Arjuna Posted January 7, 2005 Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 (edited) My system is Compaq Presario 900, AMD Athlon XP 1500 with 256MB. When I installed MDK it was quite OK to use, but by time the system has got really slow. Starting up KDE takes now 90 sec, OpenOffice 82 sec and also other apps take time to start up. Most annoying is starting file manager, konqueror takes 15 seconds to get up and running. Also bootup process is sluggish. This is very annoying, as this computer cannot be suspended as ATI Radeon IGP320M (U1) 4336 with Xorg ATI Radeon (fglrx) driver does not support it yet. Any ideas how to get things faster? I do not have much clues how to tune up the system and have not tried anything this far. The system is urpmi'ed to the latest. I would be very grateful for any tune-up tips. Edited January 7, 2005 by Arjuna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gluttony Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 (edited) i'm having the same sort of trouble... i have an amd 3000+ processor and 512Mb ram and for example, openoffice sometimes takes several minutes to start up. other applications are really slow to start up the first time i run them (faster afterwards) but if i don't use them for a while, they take ages to start up again. the weird thing is once i have started up an application, it runs fine :s all my urpmis are up to date (as far as i know) and my graphics and sound card drivers are up to date i should say though that actual KDE starts up quite fast :) Edited February 9, 2005 by gluttony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 As far as OO goes, uninstalling and then re-installing it can help with speed-up times (if you installed it originally when you installed the OS). Also, do "ps- aux" in a terminal to see if anything's hogging resources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 (edited) I had the same problem, but it somehow misteriously solved itself after I did the last KDE updates (3.2.3). It's been about 6 days without a restart now and all is swift and programs are starting normally. Hope it stays so (fingers crossed). p.s. Anyone knows when KDE 3.4 comes out? Edited February 11, 2005 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowchaser Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 Well KDE 3.4 beta is out.. If you get it let us know how it works... as for Arjuna check your Services you may have something running that you don't need.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellis Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 (edited) One possibility that I have been alerted to is that it may be your hostname that's causing the problem. I certainly noticed previously that when I'm off the net, it takes *a*g*e*s* for simple things like a terminal to open (>1 minute). The solution which was suggested to me was to add the host names to your /etc/hosts file - you'll need to do this as root. My understanding of why this works (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is that there is some kind of operation going on when launching a program, which requires resolution of your local host name to an IP address. Of course, it's always 127.0.0.1, your local machine, but if you're not on the net, then the DNS query for that name has to time out, which can be a long time. And even if you are, you still have to contact the DNS server and do all that stuff. I believe that the name is first checked against /etc/hosts, and if it is there it completely bypasses the network and therefore the timeout or overhead for doing this. By default, it looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost Here's mine - I have two additional entries because both my actual ISP (NTL) and dynamic DNS (homelinux.org) allow me to set up a separate host name: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 notmyrealhostname.ntlworld.com 127.0.0.1 notmyrealhostname.homelinux.org All of these resolve immediately to the local IP address, 127.0.0.1. I haven't noticed a great speedup when connected, but on the other hand, I haven't had any ot those huge, 2 minute app launch delays that I was seeing before either. You try this fix, or if you can confirm or deny my speculation as to why it works, please post a quick reply to let us know. Edited February 11, 2005 by sellis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 I just hope that this bug localized or not is reported to Mandrake asap. It's really annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gluttony Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 can someone give me all the steps i need to go through to update KDE? i've read elsewhere that you need to update arts and stuff like that before hand so i don't want to go blasting in as i don't really know what i 'm doing. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest heman Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 One possibility that I have been alerted to is that it may be your hostname that's causing the problem. I certainly noticed previously that when I'm off the net, it takes *a*g*e*s* for simple things like a terminal to open (>1 minute). The solution which was suggested to me was to add the host names to your /etc/hosts file - you'll need to do this as root. My understanding of why this works (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is that there is some kind of operation going on when launching a program, which requires resolution of your local host name to an IP address. Of course, it's always 127.0.0.1, your local machine, but if you're not on the net, then the DNS query for that name has to time out, which can be a long time. And even if you are, you still have to contact the DNS server and do all that stuff. I believe that the name is first checked against /etc/hosts, and if it is there it completely bypasses the network and therefore the timeout or overhead for doing this. By default, it looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost Here's mine - I have two additional entries because both my actual ISP (NTL) and dynamic DNS (homelinux.org) allow me to set up a separate host name: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 notmyrealhostname.ntlworld.com 127.0.0.1 notmyrealhostname.homelinux.org All of these resolve immediately to the local IP address, 127.0.0.1. I haven't noticed a great speedup when connected, but on the other hand, I haven't had any ot those huge, 2 minute app launch delays that I was seeing before either. You try this fix, or if you can confirm or deny my speculation as to why it works, please post a quick reply to let us know. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi, This is just to confirm that it works wonders.I had faced similar problems and could get my applications running faster by writining one line in /etc/hosts file. I added this domainname host name host name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 (edited) Hi,This is just to confirm that it works wonders.I had faced similar problems and could get my applications running faster by writining one line in /etc/hosts file. I added this domainname host name host name <{POST_SNAPBACK}> could you please be more specific? do you mean you did not include 127.0.0.1 in this line? Edited February 16, 2005 by coverup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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