Mandrake really slow.....

[mak2k]

Okay, i'm really surprised that mandrake 7.2 is soooooo slow. The loading is great (the graphical stuff is amazing!) but the GUI (KDE) itself is sooo slow. I load Netscape (it takes about 30 seconds) and try to load the console and it takes alot of time... just like if i was using windows (i can hear it work alot). Any tweak i can do to speed things up? I load samba and most of the default loading.

System Specs:
Celeron 600@675
Chaintech 6VTA3 VIA
64 megs of RAM
Mandrake 7.2 (expert installation so Xfree86 4.01)
13.6 gig ATA/66

Is it because i have a VIA mobo that makes this soooo slow? :confused:

[chenliway]

yea i kinda noticed it was pretty slow. i tried gnome and icewm and they SEEM to be better. but i dunno cuz i havent had a chance to actually experiment more. only used kde a coupla times...

[n2linux]

What processes do you have running in the background? If you don't need it, kill it.

Another alternative is kind of what Chenliway said, use a "lighter" windowmanager. I use blackbox and can run KDE apps with no problems.

-edit: oh and with 64MB RAM, you are bound to hit your swap esp. while loading netscape. Maybe try Konqueror as a web browser..

[ 14 February 2001: Message edited by: n2linux ]

[linuxgrrl]

Even with 7.1, Mandrake was really slow for me when it "thought " it had only 64 MB RAM. Once I flashed the bios on my mainboard and Mandrake "saw" all the RAM, Mandrake was not slow at all (neither is 7.2 for me). Maybe you need more RAM for such a huge horse, so to speak...

Oh, I always use BlackBox. Everything seems faster with BlackBox!

[ 14 February 2001: Message edited by: linuxgrrl ]

[krisguy]

I use WindowMaker as my manager and have no slowdown of Netscape and I am using a P166 with 64mb of RAM.

[chenliway]

whoaa linuxgirl, i have 256mb ram and its running slow...
so do you think that it only "thinks" i have 64?
how would i fix it?

[Big_daddy]

I have 192 meg of RAM and it is slow running Gnome or KDE. It's just slow.

[cookiemonster]

One of the things that you should do is to do the hard drive speed tweek that is in the help files. If you have not done that then you are running with 16 bit and not 32 bit access to the hard drive. By doing the hard drive tweek, speed went up by factor of 3.5:1 or so on my machine.

[bdg1983]

For chenliway...

First check that your BIOS has 'Non-OS2 OS' enabled. This by itself will sometimes fix the problem of not all the memory being detected.

Also edit your /etc/lilo.conf and add the line append="mem=256M" and then run /sbin/lilo to rewrite the updated lilo.

If you are using Grub, try doing a search for grub here http://support.calderasystems.com/caldera and you will find how to update menu.lst to accomplish the same task.

Hope this helps.