system very slow in Intel 64 bit box.

bruse · 05-01-2006, 08:10 AM

I have recently installed Debian 3.1 r1 on my pc.
The system Details are..Intel 533MHz, P4 2.8 GHz,^$ bit arch.And Intel 64 bit motherBoard.
And 1GB of DDR RAM.The installation goes well.
After i logged in the Debian is very slow.It takes long time to load GNOME..and too much time to KDE.
I ve looked the #top,#free,#ps but the RAM is free enough.
what the debian doing with 798 MB of Free RAM.It sgould load faster u know?

Also CPU usage also very low.then why should it take long time??

Is there any clash in 32 bit appli. to 64 bit.?

antidrugue · 05-01-2006, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bruse

I have recently installed Debian 3.1 r1 on my pc.

Did you install Debian using the default 2.4 kernel?

If so, that explains the lack of speed.

Which kernel does this machine run?

Code:

uname -a

Please give more detail as in which ways is this system slow...

Dead Parrot · 05-01-2006, 05:04 PM

If the loopback device is not set in /etc/network/interfaces, GNOME and KDE can become very slow. Check that you have these two lines in /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

bruse · 05-02-2006, 05:43 AM

#uname -a is 2.6.8-5 Gnu/Linux 64bit Intel,1GB RAM.

antidrugue · 05-02-2006, 10:06 AM

What does hdparm tell you? Is DMA enabled on the drive?

What's the score of

Code:

hdparm -iI /dev/hda #for an IDE

Code:

hdparm -i /dev/sda #for a SATA/SCSI

?

And what's the result of

Code:

dmesg | grep -i sda # or hda for an IDE

?

You could try to compile your own kernel.