PC speed under 11.4

Hi

I’ve recently managed to install 11.4 with both Gnome 2.32 and KDE 4.6, moving from 11.3. However, there seems to be a significant speed degradation in terms of opening applications, switching windows, clicking on links etc. I have installed the Radeon graphics drivers from YaST, without much success.

IMHO, Gnome seems slightly faster than KDE; however, it’s still not great.

My machine worked well with 11.3 and seemed to be going pretty well; however, I wanted new and shiny, so…

The PC has an AMD dual-core chip (can’t remember the exact spec).

Does anyone have any suggestions to speed things up? Alternatively, is there good benchmarking software I could try to see if I can get an idea of my real speed?

You have some sort of issue. I went from 11.2 to 11.4 and performance
is the exact same. KDE 4.6 with nVidia drivers.

On 07/28/2011 03:06 PM, aescott wrote:
> I’ve recently managed to install 11.4 with both Gnome 2.32 and KDE 4.6,
> moving from 11.3.

how did you ‘move’ from openSUSE 11.3 to 11.4? i ask, because some ways
of doing that leaves ‘junk’ in the corners (in directories and/or
configuration files) which just cause troubles (lots of different kinds
of troubles…one could be system speed)…


DD
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:06:03 +0000, aescott wrote:

> Hi
>
> I’ve recently managed to install 11.4 with both Gnome 2.32 and KDE 4.6,
> moving from 11.3. However, there seems to be a significant speed
> degradation in terms of opening applications, switching windows,
> clicking on links etc. I have installed the Radeon graphics drivers from
> YaST, without much success.
>
> IMHO, Gnome seems slightly faster than KDE; however, it’s still not
> great.
>
> My machine worked well with 11.3 and seemed to be going pretty well;
> however, I wanted new and shiny, so…
>
> The PC has an AMD dual-core chip (can’t remember the exact spec).
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions to speed things up? Alternatively, is
> there good benchmarking software I could try to see if I can get an idea
> of my real speed?

How much memory is in the machine, what kind of video card?

If you run ‘top’ in a terminal window, what seems to be eating the CPU
the most, if anything?

Jim


Jim Henderson
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Thanks for the responses. I’m now at home and can answer some of the questions:

“Move” to 11.4 was a clean install from an ISO image. I didn’t format the hard drive or anything, and my documents etc were still there after the instsall. However, I did select “New Installation” from the menu.

Secondly, the PC has got 4Gb RAM and runs on 2 AMD Turion X2 processors (2.2GHz), with a 500Gb hard disk, 320Gb for Linux, the rest for Windows (which I never use).

The “top” command returns a whole list of things - I’ll investigate these and post back.

OK - tracker-miner is hogging the CPU. Have done a quick search and this seems to be others experience. I think it’s because I also have GNOME installed. I’ll remove it and see what difference that makes.

Well, removing tracker seems to have made a difference already. System is much more responsive. Thanks for the tips.