[SOLVED] upgrade to current makes my computer run considerably slower

mbvo · 04-06-2011, 09:03 PM

I just replaced pclinuxos with slackware 13.1. it ran faster, but I didn't like the fact a few things were outdated. so i updated to -current. now it runs insanely slow, takes forever to load and every time I switch windows it reads the hard drive a lot more than it should as if it's using a large amount of swap. I've checked the system monitor and it says its using 400mb of memory and 145mb swap(rather higher than my windows xp sp3 install). thing is i can't find the process thats using all the memory. the most being used supposedly is 115mb by firefox followed by, x at 65mb. and there are 150 processes running.

is there any way to get the speed back without going back to 13.1?

willysr · 04-06-2011, 09:21 PM

what steps did you do in order to upgrade to -Current?
for me, i don't see a performance downgrade on all of my machine (i'm following -Current all the time)

mbvo · 04-06-2011, 09:38 PM

on a fresh install of 13.1 i modified /etc/slackpkg/mirrors by uncommenting the very last line ran

slackpgk update
slackpgk upgrade
slackpgk install-new

then i dont think this is relevent, but i ran slackpgk install grub

dive · 04-06-2011, 09:42 PM

For future reference install-new should be run before upgrade-all. I'm surpised you could still boot.

update
install-new
upgrade-all
clean-system

willysr · 04-06-2011, 09:43 PM

it should be

Code:

slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
slackpkg clean-system

have you merged all the .new configuration files?

mbvo · 04-06-2011, 10:26 PM

i selected overwrite and save old as .old. also i was not aware that there was an importance to the order. i've been doing it that was since slackware 12.2. I'm running clean system now... kinda forgot that step.

Tribulation · 04-06-2011, 10:29 PM

There's an importance to the order to overwrite files? I didn't know that, I'm currently updating to -Current myself (which is taking forever by the way, three hours and counting... Maybe I picked a bad mirror).

mbvo · 04-06-2011, 10:34 PM

bad mirror? bad time of the day? the last mirror in the file is an oc-48 connection, it took me about an hr or so to upgrade. it runs much better now that i ran clean-system. and i've always chose 0 when it gets to the end.

Tribulation · 04-06-2011, 11:03 PM

Must have been a slow mirror. After it finished I chose the OC-48 one and tested it out by using slackpkg updae and it was done a lot quicker than my other mirror.