[GLLUG] Really poor SuSE 9 performance

Gary Holbrook gholbrook at digitalintuition.com
Tue Jun 1 14:37:09 EDT 2004


Paul,

THanks for the suggestions...I'll try them when I work up enough nerve to
power my laptop back up!  I nearly threw it during a temper tantrum last
night.  Do you think that I should stick with KDE\Gnome or should I try a
lighter WM?

Gary

Melson, Paul (PMelson at sequoianet.com) wrote:
>
> This sounds like two separate problems.  If you run `vmstat 3` in a
> terminal while you're experiencing poor performance in X11, what kind of
> user/sys/idle CPU stats do you see?  If you see a lot of CPU
> utilization, it may be the X server.  You could try switching to/from
> the framebuffer X server, or try running XF86Setup to tweak the video
> driver configuration.
>
> As far as the package management database taking forever to load in
> YaST, that's just how it is.  It's slow on my P2/366, P3/800, and dual
> P2Xeon/500 systems, which are otherwise very responsive.  It doesn't
> seem to matter if I'm running it in X11/Gnome or using the curses
> interface.
>
> PaulM
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Holbrook [mailto:gholbrook at digitalintuition.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:14 PM
> > To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> > Subject: [GLLUG] Really poor SuSE 9 performance
> >
> >
> > I'm running SuSE 9 pro on a 500Mhz toshiba laptop, ACPI is
> > disabled, 192MB RAM.  DMA is enabled on hard drive.
> >
> > KDE and Gnome are both painfully slow.  With only two konsole
> > windows open, it takes about a second to switch between the
> > windows.  I have disabled every service that I possibly can.
> > One thing that I notice is that even in console mode, YAST
> > takes forever to load the package management database.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gary
> >
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