11.3 get disappointing slow...

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Hi all,

I am on SuSE and openSUSE long time now and always to my satisfaction.

As of 11.3 with KDE I get the feeling my distro gets slower and slower every time… I use KDE 4.6 and only the Tumbleweed -repro besides 4 basic repro’s
I also have this ATI-driver issue: a HD2400 ATI-card which I use now with proprietary driver. I do not know how the open-source driver is evaluated in the mean time.
But My older Pentium 4 Hyper Treating (64 bits) Dell-pc ( 2 GB ram) gets slower and slower.

I would like to stay with openSUSE and KDE, but where could I find best tuning-advice to run it as before…I think many speed-issues has to do with:

KDE gets heavy…
Nepomuk/Strigi is a pain in the ***
This videocard ? will it run best om ATI or on open-driver ??
Would a fresh install to 11.4 (coming out in a few weeks) be a good idea

My system was always fast until 11.3 came along.
Any advice would be great…

Richard

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Hi,

You’re right, a pentium 4 with kde 4.6 is a little tight. But imagine with windows… :stuck_out_tongue:

If you stick with the default kde when you installed openSUSE 11.3 ? Was it better ?

With a pentium 4 and if I was you, I’ll look to migrate to a GNOME desktop. My 2 cents. :slight_smile:

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THX DaaX for quick reply.

I would serious consider GNOME, but it is realy faster ?
My point is also I like to keep Amarok and K3b (to name some) as my favorit apps.

I must add also the fact that as of 11.3 it gets very bad (slow), before it was always good performance, so until 11.2. With 11.3 it changed dramatic to the worse…

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As Daax said, trying Gnome could help, or if that doesn’t help then one of the lighter desktops such as LXDE (with some Gnome apps) might be the way forward.

If running desktop effects in KDE, you could try turning those off in KDE system settings.

Nepomuk/Strigi: both can be disabled in KDE system settings on 11.3. I thought they were off by default, but in any case I have them both off even though I probably don’t need to with my hardware.

You didn’t say how much real memory you have? I wouldn’t want to run with less than 1.5GB, but hey some users cope with 1GB. It depends on how many concurrent apps you need open and how much multimedia streaming that includes. I would say 2GB would be better.

It would certainly be worth trying 11.4 which has integrated KDE 4.6 and a Firefox version 4, but the default PulseAudio may add a bit of extra overhead. :slight_smile:

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Really much lighter than KDE and would best suit your pentium 4. :wink:

My point is also I like to keep Amarok and K3b (to name some) as my favorit apps.

I have GNOME and use k3b without problems. For Amarok, never tried it in GNOME…

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I believe you can run Amarok under Gnome (uses PulseAudio by default).

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Thanks for responses so far…:slight_smile:

I think I will wait for 11.4 and start a fresh install with LXDE, I hope this is an option to chose at install…

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You could search the Pre-release forum for LXDE and 11.4 testing threads or posts. You will probably find some posted by @oldcpu, as he was involved with the LXDE project. Now LXDE is part of the main distro, and in Yast>Software Management>View>Patterns you will find a pattern for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) on 11.4 (and 11.3 IIRC). :slight_smile:

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Well great news…(for me at least :slight_smile: )

I reformat my / dir and did an install of 11.3 with GNOME. and this runs GREAT…fast and even 3d-effects are useable now.
Okay I must find my way in Gnome but it feels very stable and most of all…MUCH faster then KDE.
I think this solves my issue.

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Am 2011-02-25 21:06, schrieb DaaX:
>
> Hi,
>
> You’re right, a pentium 4 with kde 4.6 is a little tight. But imagine
> with windows… :stuck_out_tongue:
> …

it’s fine. One of my machines I run as satellite TV video
recorder and media playing machine has P4 2GHz without HT and 1
MB SDRAM (no DDR). It runs perfectly well with Win-XP-Pro which I
dis-burdened of unnecessary bloat. I even do Video some editing
and recoding with that machine. Best of all: With the cool and
power saving P4 it is nearly inaudible. The HW is an old
Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic, a former “professional” (not consumer)
machine.

Christoph

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Christoph Schmees wrote:

> it’s fine. One of my machines I run as satellite TV video
> recorder and media playing machine has P4 2GHz without HT and 1
> MB SDRAM (no DDR).

I assume you mean 1 GB instead of 1 MB?

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Or try to change you processor and put a ram 4gb!!!:wink:

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Hi,

Yeah, it’s right that winxp is suitable for your system, but don’t even think upgrading to vista or win7.

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Am 2011-02-28 14:36, schrieb DaaX:
>
> Christoph Schmees;2296310 Wrote:
>> Am 2011-02-25 21:06, schrieb DaaX:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You’re right, a pentium 4 with kde 4.6 is a little tight. But imagine
>>> with windows… :stuck_out_tongue:
>>> …
>>
>> it’s fine. One of my machines I run as satellite TV video
>> recorder and media playing machine has P4 2GHz without HT and 1
>> MB SDRAM (no DDR). It runs perfectly well with Win-XP-Pro which I
>> dis-burdened of unnecessary bloat. I even do Video some editing
>> and recoding with that machine. Best of all: With the cool and
>> power saving P4 it is nearly inaudible. The HW is an old
>> Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic, a former “professional” (not consumer)
>> machine.
>>
>> Christoph
>>
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>> nurfuerspam → gmx
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> Hi,
>
> Yeah, it’s right that winxp is suitable for your system, but don’t even
> think upgrading to vista or win7.
>

I was able to avoid Vista, and I will employ W7 only if I’m
forced to …
If I need a resource hog I use OS w/KDE 4 or Ubuntu w/ gnome :slight_smile:

Christoph

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