Slow Suse 10.0

gnatfish · 03-11-2006, 08:52 AM

Hello

I currently have Suse 10.0 running on an:

Intel Pentium 3
256 MB RAM
798 MHz

It is partitioned with Windows XP, but has much more space. It is really slow. I was wondering whether anyone can recommend an older version of Suse that will run moderately fast on my system. Or is there a better faster distribution out there. What about Mandriva? The Windows partition is very fast for some reason.

Any help is much appreciated.

KimVette · 03-11-2006, 09:07 AM

SuSE is plenty fast. I run 10.0 on a dual celeron (472Mhz goodness!) and it is plenty zippy. Of course on that box when using it for a workstation I don't run eyecandy, make sure that apache, sendmail, mysql, and other background programs are all turned off, and I made sure that the hard drives are tuned using hdparm (man hdparm).

gnatfish · 03-11-2006, 11:54 AM

Oh...because mine is really slow to load anything. How do i turn of those programs off and how do i tune the hdparm. Sorry i'm a bit off a newbie.

KimVette · 03-11-2006, 09:42 PM

Read up on runlevels. Open YaST, go to system, runlevels, and have fun!

gnatfish · 03-12-2006, 08:41 AM

Yeah i found it out now. Which background programs don't i need? I don't really want to start disabling things i need.

Thanks