Re: [opensuse] New opensuse and having a few problems

James Pifer wrote:
Hi all. I'm fairly new to opensuse, although I'm not new to linux. In
the past I've always used redhat flavors. So lately that's been fedora
for personal and centos for work computers. Our company uses Novell
products heavily so I'm trying to run opensuse on my laptop. I'm not
running SLED or SLES because my wireless NIC doesn't work with those,
but does with opensuse 10.3 out of the box.

I'm having a few issues though. Hoping to get some help. (I have googled
for many if not all of these issues, but have not found solutions) I'm
not using wireless at the moment.

1) In general the system seems slugish. It's new laptop with Centrino
Duo processor and 4 gig of RAM. I'm running SMP kernal: 2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp
When I do a top it only shows 1 CPU (maybe that's correct).
If I look at gnome system monitor it shows two processors.
I'm only using 21% of the RAM right now and no swap.
The system fan seems to be running constantly.


Make sure you remove beagle and kerry, and turn off openSuSE updater that run at the start of a kde session. This will stop the 10 minutes of frantic I/O sluggishness and slowdown when you log in. Also, set the cron-daily scripts to run after you go to sleep. If cron-daily is kicking off while you are working on the computer, you will see massive slowdows.

You can handle the cron-daily issue in Yast->system->/etc/sysconfig editor ->system ->cron ->DAILY_TIME

or just edit /etc/sysconfig/cron and set DAILY_TIME to run when you are not working. For beagle and kerry, I just delete them from the system (save libbeagle it is just headerfiles). For openSuSE updater, just right-click and uncheck the run on each login box. Then just run it manually when you have the time.

You will like openSuSE once you "tune" it a little.

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