ahmad Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 Hi.. i'm new with Linux... but i'm dreaming to get red of Windows for good.. but Mandriva 2006 Doesn't give me the performance i was hoping for... i just installed Madriva Free 2006 on my intel® CPU 2.4 GHz , 480MB of RAM the Partestion where it's installed is 5G and contains nothing but Mandriva i know it's not an amazing machine.. but it used to work fine with Windows XP... but with Mandriva (KDE 3.4) it's REALLY SLOW... it takes me 5 minets after duble clicking my (Home) icone to open.. may be 7 minets to open firfox from the taskbar...!!! i read a few stuff on the internet about internal cash and ways to set up the system to increase the performance.. but i don't know how to do it.. i'm really new.. :( i hope to make it run finally... thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 Welcome to the board What partitions did you create during the installation? Did you create a swap, or did you just choose the defaults? Have you also applied updates? Another reason for a slow machine is this, open a console window and type: urpme kat because this slows everything down so much, and is the first thing to remove. You'll probably find when you remove this, that it will work much more normally. Another alternative, if you don't want to use the command line, is to click System/Configuration/Packaging/Remove Software. Then choose the "All" option and type "kat" in the box and click search. Then tick the box and click Remove. To get updates on, go to easy-urpmi at the top of this page, and set up your sources for main, contrib, jpackage, plf-free, plf-nonfree and updates. These are good repositories for downloading additional software for your install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 the scary part of all this is that we've seen many threads where kat was the downfall of the performance of so many of our machines. ahmad, your machine is as good a computer (you have the faster cpu and i have more ram) as mine and my computer outperforms itself while i'm in linux (with kde 3.5) as compared to in windows xp. i second ian's question. what partitions did you create? further i also recommend doing what ian suggests with the easy-urpmi. updates can make a world of difference in your compy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmad Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 i don't know about the partition .. it was created already by dos in this harddrive... the installing wizard asked me to format this partition and i did... i didn't apply for updates during instalation... i'll look for it now as you suggested.. thanks.. i used this console for my 1st time now :) i typed what you seid... and it's keep givin me: [ahmad@a-n4zavyod9o2q8 ~]$ urpme kat bash: urpme: command not found i tried many other commands it gives me the same thing... seems like in general i have a very limited access on my Computer!!! i don't know why..! even with copying files from Folder to Other! well i believe you are the only person on earth who gives ppl alternative ways then typing on console.... THAAANKS! well.. i tried as you seid to choose the "All" option and type "kat" in the box and click search. it gave me 4 things ready to be removed.. whin i click some of them .. it worn me .. that it'll be needed to remove other stuff if i wont to remove this... is it OK? thanks for your time.. and for your effort here... a. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 Normally, should only need to select kat and remove this. The others can be left. The urpme command only works as root, so normally: su (enter root password when prompted) urpme kat is my fault I forgot to mention it :P For the partitions, easy way to find out: su (enter root password when prompted) fdisk -l this will list the physical disk partitions, but you can also do: cat /etc/fstab which lists your mount points and probably better and more informative for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmad Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 WOW... Finally i work with Console...! thanks Man... I don't believe it! i tried Fdisk -1 here is what i gut: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 765 14593 111081442+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 765 904 1124518+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 905 14593 109956861 83 Linux is it good or bad.. I'm Lost here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 That's OK, this is just to show the file system types. Use: cat /etc/fstab to show mount points, etc. But it does look like you have swap configured, because I can see it on /dev/hda5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmad Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 thnks again... now the updats are downloading @ the Konsole... it'll take some time... after it's done... do i need to do addetional thing to install it .. or that's it? can i use cat /etc/fstab while the Konsole is doing something else like downloading?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 Nope, that's the system up and running. Then it's just a case of adding new packages as and when you need them. If you added all the urpmi sources from easy-urpmi using the link at the top of this page, you can get access to lots more software. Add main, contrib, jpackage, plf-free, plf-nonfree and updates to get everything you need. It's rare to need to install something from source just yet, unless it's not in the repository. But practice using the system first before you get to compiling and installing your own apps from source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmad Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 The situation now is: 1- i've reemoved Kat using Konsole succsesfully... 2 - the Konsole kept downlaoding and writing stuff.. but i think it's done with Easy-Urpm but i don't know how to Make sure of that... System speed increased i have to admit... not it takes me 17 sec to open Firefox it's a way faster.. but still slow comparing to Xp is it all? or should i restart? should i use KDE 3.5? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 Kde 3.5 is noticably faster but it is officially available only for paying club members. But you can use the SoS repo (www.seerofsouls.com) if you want. You can speed up your sytem by switching off unwanted services in the MCC, using another DE etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 (edited) Just disable services you won't need, and forget about KDE 3.5.0, either from SoS or Thac... As a new Linux user you should avoid mixing repositories, until the day you are really familiar with the OS. The best way to make Mandriva faster is rolling a light kernel of your own and getting rid of the overfed+sluggish stock kernel, but this isn't a job for a new Linux user, either... Edited May 22, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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