I have a new machine build consisting of:
MOBO - Gigabyte GA-67A-D3-B3
Chipset - P67 Express
CPU - Intel Core i5-2500K
Memory - 8GB
Video - EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SE
LAN chipset - Realtek 8111E
Wireless card - Rosewill RNX-N250PC
DASD - WD Cavier Black 500GB for Windows 7
WD Cavier Black 1.5TB for Opensuse
I installed 64-bit Windows 7 on the 500GB drive and it works well. All the hardware is recognized and things run pretty speedily.
I installed 64-bit Opensuse 11.4 on the 1.5TB drive and the overall performance is poor. Gnome starts right up but KDE takes at least 45 seconds before the Application Launcher responds. Once the desktop in running I can move around in applications in a reasonable manner but Internet activity with Firefox or Konquerer is very slow. Pages render slowly or time out. Downloads that run at 1.1MB/sec in Windows run at 80KB/sec in OpenSuse. I checked YAST>Hardware Information and Network Card reports GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard instead of GA-67A-D3-B3 and Network Interface reports Loopback and Ethernet but no wireless. Opensuse seems to have the wrong hardware profile. Something’s not right but I don’t know how to diagnose it and am looking for help.
Once the desktop in running I can move around in applications in a reasonable manner but Internet activity with Firefox or Konquerer is very slow. Pages render slowly or time out.
I recommend starting a new thread in the relevant forum, with a descriptive title (and useful chipset info) so that it catches the attention of those who can help.
Do you have a startup sound in KDE? There may be problems with certain sound chips and a long delay before being able to use is a symptom. The solution is to disable pulse in the sound setup in Yast and restart the sound system.
Also you may want to install the NVIDIA drivers for best graphics.
IVP6 may be the problem in Internet speed as deano_ferrari said
I see that your help is all over the map here. I might as well continue in that fashon and suggest you need to install the nVIDIA driver for your EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SE which is a very good selection. Here is a pointer to how that can be done:
The video card has audio support, but it is only stereo, but it does work out of the HDMI cable. If you are using the built-in motherboard audio, you need to make sure it is the default. Goto YaST / Hardware / Sound and make sure the built-in motherboard audio is setup as device 0 which is the default.
The Gigabyte GA-67A-D3-B3 motherboard number seems to be missing a letter. It could be a H67 or P67 or even Z67, but I don’t know what a 67A is doing for a chipset. Is there a misprint in that number?
Please explain HOW you disabled ipv6. There have been changes over the years as to what works for disabling IPV6 and what does not work and I confess there have been many cases where users stated they disabled ipv6, when in fact what they did to attempt to disable ipv6 did not work.
wrt to the slow boot, why not look to see what is causing the slow boot ?
Install bootchart and check to see what process is consuming the CPU !
Here is the bootchart.png of my sandbox PC, which is a truely ancient 32-bit athlon-1100 (running 11.4) with no optimisation (immediately after the install) and a rather slow and ancient nVidia FX5200 graphic card: http://thumbnails38.imagebam.com/12247/83627c122466758.jpg](ImageBam)
boot chart identified some areas that could be tuned …
Here is the same ancient athlon-1100 with the same openSUSE-11.4 install but with apparmor removed and the number of VT (terminal) sessions reduced. Much faster to boot (from 120 seconds to 85 seconds): http://thumbnails38.imagebam.com/12248/019cec122475663.jpg](ImageBam)
I assume that dependent on when the terminal is opened after rebooting will dictate when the data collection for the chart is stopped (I’m not sure - as I am no expert).
Please run these commands as user root. Run vmstat while your system is busy reading/writing the hard disk. Mark your results as CODE like I did for the above commands to make them readable.
And: please report the EXACT model number of your WD hard disk. It might be a new caviar black with Advanced Format. To my knowledge the caviar black did not use advanced format so far, but one never knows.
I disabled by following this ‘Disable IPv6’ guide i.e. YAST>Network Devices>uncheck ipv6, changed Firefox network.dns.disableIPv6 default boolean true, then rebooted. I’ll work on the boot chart.
On 07/17/2011 02:36 PM, DonMLewis wrote:
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> MTU:1500
what MTU is the dual booted Win using? if less (like in the 1400s) you
try to reset it in Linux to match and see if that speeds things up…
(if the system can only push though (say) 1450 then each 1500 ‘chunk’ of
traffic ‘stuff’ has to be looked at twice, instead of only once…that
will cause a net slowdown…now, i admit i’m not a networking guru (not
even close) and i probably messed up the technical names…maybe ‘chunk’
or ‘stuff’ should be ‘thingamajig’ or ‘whatchamacallit’ or ‘bits’,
‘bytes’, ‘mites’, or ‘boops’
I added ipv6.disable=1 to the boot loader via YAST2>System>Bootloader edited the optional kernal command line parameter to read: resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1502FAEX-007BA0_WD-WMAY01360710-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts ipv6.disable=1. It didn’t make any difference. Perhaps I haven’t done the correct thing.
