Hello,
I have installed Opensuse 11.0 today and everything is working. Everone is telling me that linux is working faster as windows xp, but i am very disapointed about the response times! It is a absolute disaster working in linux! Opensuse 11.0 is working very slow on my pc, at least twice as slow as windows XP. Is there any opensource guru who can help me, because I am not convinced! What am i doing wrong?
kind regards
bit more info,please,i.e.
hardware specifications,
what exactly is running slow,
any errors,
is beagle running ?
Andy
badd ronaldo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed Opensuse 11.0 today and everything is working. Everone
> is telling me that linux is working faster as windows xp, but i am very
> disapointed about the response times! It is a absolute disaster working
> in linux! Opensuse 11.0 is working very slow on my pc, at least twice as
> slow as windows XP. Is there any opensource guru who can help me,
> because I am not convinced! What am i doing wrong?
Could you give any fewer details? I think not.
What is running slower? Is it network browsing or just general
interactive response? If the former, have you disabled IPV6? If the
latter, is beagle running? Open a terminal and enter the command
‘top’. That will show you which processes are running. Yes, I know you
can get that information from Windows with a GUI, but it takes a lot
of key presses.
What desktop did you install? What features are you running? What
graphics driver?
By now, I’m sure you get the idea.
Larry
you probably installed KDE4 which is EXPERIMENTAL and very buggy at
this point…
read http://tinyurl.com/3vwrzl (item 7 for sure, and all of it when
you start over)
and, next time install KDE3-something or Gnome…and, you will find
life a lot easier…
but, you also need to kill beagle…
–
DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via NNTP, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KDE
3.5.7, SUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
Hello,
I did use the Gnoom desktop. Running windows xp on the same pc is working much faster. So it has nothing to do with hardware. Please advice!
Thx
Badd
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 19:06 +0000, badd ronaldo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed Opensuse 11.0 today and everything is working. Everone
> is telling me that linux is working faster as windows xp, but i am very
> disapointed about the response times! It is a absolute disaster working
> in linux! Opensuse 11.0 is working very slow on my pc, at least twice as
> slow as windows XP. Is there any opensource guru who can help me,
> because I am not convinced! What am i doing wrong?
Possibly nothing (except being a newbie). If you’re running a
composited desktop, that will
probably be considerably slower. There are a LOT of variables. It’s
possible that your graphics card isn’t well supported, or possible
that you don’t have it configured correctly.
It’s hard to know exactly what “slower” means. So it’s hard to
determine what might be wrong. Could be a DMA issue or you might
have a FRAID controller… again, lots of unknowns at this point.
Could be a network issue… again… what is slow?
If you have a local LUG, they will gladly take a look at your
machine and probably can determine what needs to be done.
But… in some cases, you’re stuck. And it’s not going to
run faster than XP.
Hi badd_ronaldo
Try to write a reply with clear, specific examples of what is performing slower than expected. That way we can home in on the likely causes (and possible solutions). For example:
openSUSE boot time is slower than expected
Connecting to the internet has significant delay, or surfing is slow on my 1Mb/s broadband connection.
The software app blah-blah takes XXX seconds to load
Video playback is slow with my nvidia graphics card when using Kaffeine.
Ummm . . that’s Gnome, not Gnoom. And if it is not running just as fast, then most probably it is a configuration issue or possibly the need to turn something off - just exactly the same as required sometimes in XP. Did you install XP and configure the hardware and OS yourself? That is what you are doing with openSUSE. So . . . if you will take the time to describe the problem more clearly, and describe your machine (do “lspci” as root in a terminal), we can help. Ordinarily, openSUSE/Gnome is very quick.