Hello All Slackers!

I am buffeled! I have just upgraded my old system form 8.1 to 10.0 and
the it all went from flash to a sloooooooow performance...

Hardware:

pIII 800, 384MB RAM, ATA HDD, i810 (all onboard), swap 128MB (used
about 10% with system running Xorg and Gnome)

Prior to install I removed all the lib, usr, etc and other system
related directories, so it was almost clean/first install (I've kept
only the /home directory with all the user files). Used the standard
setup. ext2fs

I am really puzzled as:
- some programs like less and man take their time to render text in
console mode (no X running in the background)
- X takes its time to come up and GNOME is veeeery sloooooow when
launching applications (while x required some tingling to get it tuned
up to i810 I am still puzzled about the time it takes for less and man
to render text).
- I cant find any messages in the logs which can give me any clue, nor
I can pinpoint an app that eats system resource when I run top.

Did any of you have the same experience and would any one out there be
able to tell me if I am doing something wrong....

Long live slack!

Vladimir

i run slack 10 on a pIII 800 box. and speed wise everythings fine. i
have the irrititating one channel sound thing, but that my card not the
box.


--
electropixie

maybe running strace with less will help show the problem?

-Adam

batevladi wrote:

> Hello All Slackers!
>
> I am buffeled! I have just upgraded my old system form 8.1 to 10.0 and
> the it all went from flash to a sloooooooow performance...

I'd suggest checking that DMA is enabled for your hard drive - as root, run
hdparm /dev/hda (replace /dev/hda with the device which represents your HDD
if different) and check what the 'using_dma' entry says.

If it doesn't say '1 (on)', then read the hdparm man page to find out how to
enable it.

Cheers

David P


--
David Precious
http://www.preshweb.co.uk/

David Precious <pinkmeat@preshweb.co.uk> wrote in message news:<1092433178.18078.1@ersa.uk.clara.net>...
> batevladi wrote:
>
> > Hello All Slackers!
> >
> > I am buffeled! I have just upgraded my old system form 8.1 to 10.0 and
> > the it all went from flash to a sloooooooow performance...
>
> I'd suggest checking that DMA is enabled for your hard drive - as root, run
> hdparm /dev/hda (replace /dev/hda with the device which represents your HDD
> if different) and check what the 'using_dma' entry says.
>
> If it doesn't say '1 (on)', then read the hdparm man page to find out how to
> enable it.
>
> Cheers
>
> David P

Thank you David! Good siggestion!

Checked it..It is on...

Vladimir

ashelley@inlandkwpp.com wrote in message news:<37oph013ka337klnlfppc14g19r9t37o6v@4ax.com>. ..
> maybe running strace with less will help show the problem?
>
> -Adam


Thanx Adam!
Had it run, and with -c it seems that the application does whatever it
is supposed to do rather quicly... I do get some read errors though.

Can it be related to the kernel compile?? I have tried also the slax
distro and it is running rather smoothly (although based on 9.1 but
still with 2.4.26 kernel)

Any more thoughts?

Thax for help!
Vladimir

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it is my wife's)

vladimir.martinov@dzak.co.uk (batevladi) wrote in message news:<948fcc0.0408130146.1bbc7cbe@posting.google.c om>...
> Hello All Slackers!
>
> I am buffeled! I have just upgraded my old system form 8.1 to 10.0 and
> the it all went from flash to a sloooooooow performance...
>
> Hardware:
>
> pIII 800, 384MB RAM, ATA HDD, i810 (all onboard), swap 128MB (used
> about 10% with system running Xorg and Gnome)
>
> Prior to install I removed all the lib, usr, etc and other system
> related directories, so it was almost clean/first install (I've kept
> only the /home directory with all the user files). Used the standard
> setup. ext2fs
>
> I am really puzzled as:
> - some programs like less and man take their time to render text in
> console mode (no X running in the background)
> - X takes its time to come up and GNOME is veeeery sloooooow when
> launching applications (while x required some tingling to get it tuned
> up to i810 I am still puzzled about the time it takes for less and man
> to render text).
> - I cant find any messages in the logs which can give me any clue, nor
> I can pinpoint an app that eats system resource when I run top.
>
> Did any of you have the same experience and would any one out there be
> able to tell me if I am doing something wrong....
>
> Long live slack!
>
> Vladimir

Well it did not (live long) on my machine...
I could not find a solution and could not wait for a kernel rebuild
(which I left to complete overnight), so Fedora is my new pet at home
took 20 minutes to install. (Slack was munching tars for 3 hours)

I'd like to know, though, if anyone has had a similar experience and
if they have solved it how did they do that... (I like slackware, and
prefer to see the icons of the original software and not the redhat
splashes... kind'a reminds me of another operating system)

Vladimir

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:59:14 -0700, batevladi wrote:

> vladimir.martinov@dzak.co.uk (batevladi) wrote in message news:<948fcc0.0408130146.1bbc7cbe@posting.google.c om>...
>> Hello All Slackers!
>>
>> I am buffeled! I have just upgraded my old system form 8.1 to 10.0 and
>> the it all went from flash to a sloooooooow performance...
>>
>> Hardware:
>>
>> pIII 800, 384MB RAM, ATA HDD, i810 (all onboard), swap 128MB (used
>> about 10% with system running Xorg and Gnome)
>>
>> Prior to install I removed all the lib, usr, etc and other system
>> related directories, so it was almost clean/first install (I've kept
>> only the /home directory with all the user files). Used the standard
>> setup. ext2fs
>>
>> I am really puzzled as:
>> - some programs like less and man take their time to render text in
>> console mode (no X running in the background)
>> - X takes its time to come up and GNOME is veeeery sloooooow when
>> launching applications (while x required some tingling to get it tuned
>> up to i810 I am still puzzled about the time it takes for less and man
>> to render text).
>> - I cant find any messages in the logs which can give me any clue, nor
>> I can pinpoint an app that eats system resource when I run top.
>>
>> Did any of you have the same experience and would any one out there be
>> able to tell me if I am doing something wrong....
>>
>> Long live slack!
>>
>> Vladimir
>
> Well it did not (live long) on my machine...
> I could not find a solution and could not wait for a kernel rebuild
> (which I left to complete overnight), so Fedora is my new pet at home
> took 20 minutes to install. (Slack was munching tars for 3 hours)
>
> I'd like to know, though, if anyone has had a similar experience and
> if they have solved it how did they do that... (I like slackware, and
> prefer to see the icons of the original software and not the redhat
> splashes... kind'a reminds me of another operating system)
>
> Vladimir

Hmm, it just doesn't make sense. I like redhat, we use it at work, but
switched back to slack after the newer versions of RH were giving me
terrible performance. I run slack on a Pii 300 and PIII T40 IBM laptop and
it runs great. One time I had a weird issue with X - ran better on RH than
slack. I installed both OSe's side by side on the same machine and was
able to mount the root disk as a regular partition so I could compare set
up and config files. If you have the time that might be the way to go.
Just a guess but made its has something to ATA drive?? Do you look at the
hdparm settings?

Bill Taggart wrote:

> Hmm, it just doesn't make sense. I like redhat, we use it at work, but
> switched back to slack after the newer versions of RH were giving me
> terrible performance. I run slack on a Pii 300 and PIII T40 IBM laptop and
> it runs great. One time I had a weird issue with X - ran better on RH than
> slack. I installed both OSe's side by side on the same machine and was
> able to mount the root disk as a regular partition so I could compare set
> up and config files. If you have the time that might be the way to go.
> Just a guess but made its has something to ATA drive?? Do you look at the
> hdparm settings?

Hi,

I´ve tested a lot of disrtos in the past, but I really find slack the
fastest. It takes about 30 Seconds to boot the bare.i kernel, and even
KDE starts very fast.

Best Regards
Marcus

Marcus Moeller <m.moeller@wrede-online.de> wrote:
> Bill Taggart wrote:

> > Hmm, it just doesn't make sense. I like redhat, we use it at
> > work, but switched back to slack after the newer versions of RH
> > were giving me terrible performance. I run slack on a Pii 300
> > and PIII T40 IBM laptop and it runs great. One time I had a
> > weird issue with X - ran better on RH than slack. I installed
> > both OSe's side by side on the same machine and was able to
> > mount the root disk as a regular partition so I could compare
> > set up and config files. If you have the time that might be the
> > way to go. Just a guess but made its has something to ATA
> > drive?? Do you look at the hdparm settings?

> Hi,

> I?ve tested a lot of disrtos in the past, but I really find slack
> the fastest. It takes about 30 Seconds to boot the bare.i kernel,
> and even KDE starts very fast.

There is _no_ difference in speed between the various
distributions, unless those distributions are setup in different
ways. But if you know anything at all about linux you will have it
setup the way you want and you will find no difference.

cordially, as always,

rm