I have an 1TB hard drive, half of it for Windows XP SP3, another half for OpenSUSE 11.4.
After installing OpenSUSE, it didn’t take me much time to notice that there was something wrong with KDE: sometimes it loaded quite fast, as expected, but most of the time I’d have to wait around 1 minute in that loading screen. Then I updated the kernel, as well as KDE itself, but that didn’t solve the problem. After that I tried to start the system using Enlightnment, and it was lightning fast compared to KDE, however, I didn’t quite like its interface, and for some reason GNOME refused to start. All that was too frustrating to me, so I gave up and have been using Windows for the last few weeks. Got sick of it now and here I am on OpenSUSE again. Oh, it feels sooo much better! BUT, I’m still with the same problem.
My specs are as follow:
Motherboard: Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H (with updated BIOS, version F11)
Processor: AMD Phenom X3 8450
Memory: 2GB
Videocard: Nvidia Geforce 8500GT (using NVIDIA proprietary drivers)
OpenSUSE 11.4
KDE 4.6.0
Did I forget anything important?
Would you help me, please?
Ps.: I didn’t have these problems with Mandriva 2010.2, which, if I’m correct, used the same KDE version.
Well, I did what you said, but no, there’s nothing taking much resources when I get to the desktop. After loading KDE is done, everything works fine. Before that, however, in the “loading” screen, the system seems to be extremely busy and even the cursor is laggy: I can only make it move after putting a lot of effort ‘shaking’ the mouse.
Ok, uninstalling Preload seems to have improved the speed considerably and the cursor issue is gone, though now it still took around 30 sec to start. Mandriva started in 15 sec max, but whatever, 30 sec is good enough to me. I’ll do a few more tests, because, as I said, sometimes it started fast. Perhaps I was lucky this time. I’ll post again later.
As for my hard disk, it’s a 1TB Maxtor STM31000340AS MX15.
Yeah, that’s right, it is definetly much faster now, clearly taking less than half the time it was taking before. But I guess this speed up will happen only while starting KDE, yeah? I mean, probably overall performance will go down, since Preload is supposed to accelerate things, according to this article.
I know, but I still preffer KDE. I love the programms and add-ons developed for it, so… Anyway, I don’t think I’ll even notice the performance drawback caused for the lack of Preload. Or perhaps I will, but I don’t really care that much.
Also, I forgot to thank you all for the help. Special thanks to you, Carl, you were very helpful!
edit: BTW, shall I post a bug report about Preload somewhere? Where?
I’m not sure it’s a bug. I couldn’t pin down exactly all the details of the problem and looking at the things preload was doing and considering I had no problems with those generally. I didn’t bother.
But Bugs go here FYI: https://bugzilla.novell.com/index.cgi
Login is the same as the forum
I also have openSUSE 11.4. I can’t remember the exact name, but on my system was
a program running named “tracker”. It was configured to crawl to some subdirs of
my home directory after boot up and maintaining some kind of database for kde4.
Things like this alway take time. I configured it
to do the job later with less priority. Also “updatedb” from “locate” can slow the
system down considerably. Maybe you can try “apropos tracker” and investigate.
Maybe this helps.
