Running the latest FC3, and it just seems sluggish to me, whenever I goto launch an app. there is a few second delay (1-3), ESPECIALLY if I'm running Xine.
I've looked for places to "tweak" the kernel in KDE, but can't find anything useful, any Ideas?
Also how can I check to see if my drives are using DMA 5/6 respectively etc....
Because its running Bloatora. OK, that was wrong and I'm only mostly kidding, but by the time you get KDE loaded and a few apps, anything with less than 512M of ram is going to be sluggish. How much RAM is in the box?
I'd start turning off unnecessary services like NFS, isdn, etc. I know you've been diving head-first into Linux from your other posts, so I'm going to assume you know how to use chkconfig unless you ask, and then of course we'll be very happy to explain further =).
To really "tweak" the kernel, you'll have to recompile it. Its really not that hard as long as you know your hardware (and since you're here, I don't think thats a big streach). The kernel has great help included (mostly), so its at least worth a try. You also have the ability to have multiple kernels available for boot, so should you really bork your system, you can always boot to your old, good, kernel as long as you have configured your boot loader properly. Again with the "let us know if you need more detail".
And finally, how is the output of a basic speed test from hdparm?
My FC3 install isn't that heavily tweaked and after a clean boot and login to KDE, free -m shows only 88MB RAM used (I only have 256MB installed atm). I have turned off all unnecessary services though and it's quite a minimal machine. But I agree with JP, it's not the snapiest of systems.
Do you leave the system running overnight? There are a stack of cronjobs that run at 4.00am including prelink which may improve the speed of opening apps once it's had a chance to run. Also, I think if they're not run overnight at their predefined times then they probably run at first boot so that may make the system feel sluggish for 5 minutes or so when first turned on.
Well, for starters, that's an old, slow hard drive. Mine is three years old, totally standard and 50% faster. Second KDE is really slow. There are about a zillion and a half things going on and interacting with each other to do - well I don't know. Try XFCE. Third, the fc3 kernel is slow. It's loaded down with SElinux hooks that nobody understands and most people just turn off, but they're still there slowing things down. It also has the 4G/4G patch, which does allow one to use 4 gigs of ram, but you don't have, and it requires the kernel to do what's called a context switch every time it it switches between kernel and user space memory accesses.
And if Xine slows you down, get rid of it. Compile your own version of mplayer, with run-time cpu detection disabled. Don't worry, you'll have compiled in cpu optimization.
well, I will say this Gnome seemed quite a bit snappier than KDE, remember I'm a noob here, C. Negus' book recommends KDE, so that, combined with a really don't care for the new look of Gnome in FC3, is why I switched, I may just switch back since it seemed a bit quicker.
Yeah my HDD's are aging no doubt, I'd like to get a trio of 74 Gig Raptors - but then again I'd like the fastest proc. available, 3 Gig's of RAM, the fastest Video Adapter, etc...,etc...., there's this strange thing called money that you have to have to get these things, which I have none of. !
I wouldn't worry about the system specs, my system is nothing is to get excited about and I'm happy with its preformance.
I'm optimized to hell and back, but firefox still takes 2.5secs to open. If I wanted those 2.5 secs of my life back I'd start using links2 or dillo. But I think thats as good as I'll get so I'll live.
And if the slowdown if specifically with xine, I'd tweak xine's settings. Maybe try different playback drivers and see what happens.
well, I think you some it up well, my system whilst running winxp or win2K is very quick, but I've tweaked them till they scream, I've no clue how to tweak Linux, so therein, most likely, lies the problem.
Ok, wierdness here, I logon, and choose Gnome as my session and my screen is back to 800X600. I think no big deal, and go to change it, it tells me to logoff and restart XServer, so I choose logoff, pick Gnome again, and I'm still at 800X600?
Then I go back into KDE and it's back to my normal 1280X1024 but I get some garbage, looks like "snow", at the top of my screen, and the taskbar is missing. I move the mouse, the snow goes away, taskbar appears, but when I move the mouse to the edges of the screen, my desktop moves slightly?!?! I had to adjust my monitor to get it centered again?
Also, while in Gnome, the update alert icon, said there were updates, so I hit it, it fetches headers, then tells me there are no updates?
Back in KDE same thing, except it goes and gets/installs them?
well, I got that figured out, had to set "screen resolution", as well as "Display", so back in Gnome, things seem snappier, somewhat, and resolution is where it should be.
Well, everything "seems" to be ok now, glxgears is working, no crashes or lockups, seems zippy, I know I've got a bunch of stuff running that I don't need, i.e. samba, sendmail, to name a couple. I've managed to figure out how to get a minor webpage up and running as evidenced by my signature working, I did get one goofy error on startup, when starting httpd it would say something about it never working as an alias at line XXX was different, than before or something. The file was /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, I simply vi'd it and remarked the line, was Alias /manual /var/www/manual, it had a paragraph saying to change it to Serverroot /manual, or just comment it out, so I commented it out, since server root is /var/www/html but it has no "manual" file?
Anyway, another step in the right direction to canning winblows, now major projects are getting my outlook *.pst file w/all my saved emails in linux, and being able to actually work, I tried creating business cards with multiple openoffice programs, and it was like a child and a crayon, terrible, no use to me at all, had to go back into winblows and use publisher, same for fliers.
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