Re: Is Linux always this slow?
From: Robert M. Riches Jr. (spamtrap42_at_verizon.net)
Date: 05/14/04
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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:41:23 GMT
In article <pan.2004.05.14.16.27.04.719462@redhat.net>, Michael wrote:
> I've been using RH9 for a while now... but it's agonizingly slow! It
> takes 10-20 seconds to open a program most of the time... ugh! Needless
> to say, when I was showing a friend of mine all the cool stuff I'd
> discovered, but he got bored while waiting for the programs to open.
>
> Maybe it's my computer... I don't know... It's a 950mhz Athlon and it
> worked great with Windows 2000, though the BIOS wasn't compatible with
> Windows XP. Is Linux always slow like this?
Did you try Google? If you had searched google.com/linux,
or groups.google.com (advanced search, *linux* groups), you
would have seen two possible solutions:
- Especially if the slowness is only for a few minutes at
a time, it may be updatedb or other background process
competing for time. Do 'top' in a terminal to see
whether there's something consuming CPU time.
- Reportedly, on some systems, Red Hat defaults IDE disks
to PIO rather than DMA. The temporary solution is
'hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda' (without the quote marks, disk
names adjusted for your system). I don't remember the
permanent solution, so I'll let you Google for it.
Good luck.
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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