Hey guys ,
recently i downloaded the Suse 3.9 , on my p3 933Mhz ,70Gb , 192 MB RAM :s
but its running extremly tooooo slow ,
i know that this pc is not a technological breakthrough , since i got it from ebay for 99EURO ...
anyway , any on idea how to optimize performance ?

and another question , is there is any version of Devc++ for linux?
or simply another c++ compiler?

Cheers!!

well the best way to speed linux up is to remove modules you don't need from the kernel... I am definitely no expert on the subject; it's next on my 'Learning Linux TO-DO' list.. hehe

but check out Chapter 9 in the Administration Guide in the SuSE Help Center, it's all about the kernel...

SuSE 9.3 also defaults to KDE... you could try logging in with Gnome, you'll probably notice a performance increase there too...

Before you get too worried about this, you should know that SuSE is not renowned for having the speediest release out there. SuSE 9.3 is fabulous - the most functional and solid linux release I have ever used - but it is not fast. Slow is a relative term of course. To put some numbers to it, SuSE boots up from GRUB prompt to KDE desktop in about 1 1/2 minutes on my 1.4 GHz P4 machine. I have a Yoper release on the same machine that does the same thing in about the half that time. However, I tweaked and twiddled and worked on that Yoper release for months before it got it to the same level of functionality that SuSE 9.3 has almost "out of the box".

So, how slow is slow? Can you post some timings? Perhaps you are just expecting more from SuSE 9.3 than it can deliver. You may wish to look to a different release that is optimized for speed, such as the above mentioned Yoper, or perhaps even Vector Linux, which bills itself as the fastest "not from source" linux out there.

thanks guys for ur answers ,
well i mean like slow !!! seriously slow ,
to boot it would take no less than 4minutes , and to shutdown around 1 minute
maybe adding a few RAM would do the trick ?

also what is really annoying is that once booted , once you click lets say on firefox it takes around 20 sec to open...

now since my interest is only in assembly programming and c++ , the speed of the OP doesnt really matter , but it was shoking to see how slow 9.3 was...

i think am gonna delete the 9.3 in a couple of days unless i figure out how to make it a bit more effective

I had this experience once with SuSE 9.0. I'm going to guess that you have a bunch of USB peripherals (hard drives, scanners, printers, etc.) attached to your computer that have not yet been configured? I had a USB scanner and a USB hard drive that caused SuSE 9.0 to take more than 4 minutes to boot. When I unplugged those two, it zipped back to a more normal speed. Any chance that this might be your problem?

Personally I would suggest an upgrade, Suse 3.9 is pretty old and there have been many performance realted improvements in more recent releases. I reccomend OpenSUSE

I suspect that the author meant "9.3", not "3.9"!

I was just joking

heheh yeah i meant the 9.3

no i dont have anything connected to it , but i have 2 hard disks in it , could it be the problem?

well what do you think about adding 512 MB RAM , will it do the trick or is it useless?

if instead of deleting the extra applications i just blocked them from starting when Suse boots.... is it possible to block all the extra applications? coz i have 62Gb

and forgot to say , one hard disk is 2,7Gb and the other 59Gb
But i think that linux divided the big one and then installed itself on the 36Gb partition...

as for loading time , i need for example more than a minute to open office!!!!

damn it is slow!!! ,

Did the installation give any error?
Is there any specific point during the boot / shutdown that the process takes time?

Try switching to the verbose mode (usually that is done by pressing Esc Key once while the system is booting or shutting down.

Try that. See what process / processes cause the slowdown.

Moreover, what is the File system that Suse is installed on.
I have seen it work slow if installed on a Fat - 32 File System.

Adding RAM *may* help. Your original post said that you had 192 MB of RAM. I have never run SuSE in less than 256 MB of RAM. There is no guarantee, but 256 MB is the "normal" amount for most Linux distros these days.

Another question comes to mind - how large is your swap partition? Could it be that with only 192 MB of RAM, and an insufficient amount of swap, SuSE is just churning? The general rule is that your swap partition should be at least twice as big as your total RAM. I would advise however that you have at least 512 MB of swap - I don't think more will hurt either. I generally run a 1GB or more swap partition on most machines.

well no actually the installation was very smooth no errors nothing ,
i tried to boot my pc many times to see if it blocks on one certain file or register , but as it seems is that the whole process is slow.
it is a vFAT system

As long as for the PC i got it from ebay so u can imagine all the crap in it

anyway the pc is a P3 933mhz
initially 2,7 Gb and then the guy added a 60Gb memory ,
192RAM ,

now when i go to the partition information of linux(coz i have also win98) i see the following:
one partition: total size 37,745 MB Free size 35,637MB
the second partition: total size 2,436 MB Free size 1,906MB
third partition: Total S. 19,127MB Free S. 19,041MB

now well i noticed something interesting that i think should be taken into consideration , the total physical memory is 179,05 MB, and when there is absolutly no programm running the free physical memory is around 6MB!!
Disk buffer is 13,61MB


and when any programm is running the free physical memory is around 1MB , the disk buffer around 1.MB
and the disk cache around 90MB

well thats the situation , , pretty desperate ,
so what do you recommand guys? other than throwing the pc from the 5th floor?

anyone?
any idea or suggestions?....

help