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tetsujin29 08-31-2008 10:15 AM
mandriva 2008 slow!
 
Hi,

I am currently running Mandriva 2008 on an intel celeron eMachine (2.2ghz) with 1GB of RAM. I am using KDE, but everything (opening programs, loading webpages, maximizing/shrinking windows) is running slower than my windows vista laptop (which is a pentium III w/512MB RAM). I have read posts in this forum that states linux should be much faster than windows, so I think there is a problem somewhere...

I performed a memtest and no errors were detected. I did a ifconfig on my ethernet port and no error were detected.

I have the following questions:

- does the size of the monitor display has any impact on speed? I am using a 22inch 1680x1050 resolution.

- Would switching from KDE to Gnome be better? If so, how do I do it?? I am not sure if Gnome is installed when I installed Mandriva.

Thanks!

Fantasio 08-31-2008 10:21 AM
to choose between kde and gnome, you try it when you log into the system (gdm - session).

You can check also which prog ask a lot of power by monitoring process (top in console or ksysguard), there 's not only what you could do. Does your graphic card is well configured ? Do you use special/proprietary driver ?

tetsujin29 08-31-2008 03:01 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fantasio (Post 3265270)
to choose between kde and gnome, you try it when you log into the system (gdm - session).

You can check also which prog ask a lot of power by monitoring process (top in console or ksysguard), there 's not only what you could do. Does your graphic card is well configured ? Do you use special/proprietary driver ?
I have it set up as an auto-boot login so it boots kde automatically (w/ no visible option for switching to gnome). Also when I do "top", I see that firefox takes about 20-30% of CPU and everything else is negligible. Is there a way to determine the actual processor speed etc?

Also, anyone recommends switching from Mandriva to Ubuntu??

Thanks!

Fantasio 09-01-2008 03:44 AM
Logout from kde ant at this time you should be able to choose between kde or gnome.
Why not, from Mandriva to OpenSuSE.

What video driver do you use ? A "generic" driver can decrease the global performance of your system.
What are the amounts of swap (total and used) ?

Each one has his preferences, mine goes to OpenSuSE. I have worked during a little bit more than a year on Ubuntu (at work), I'm convinced, that distro has some very interesting things but it's not for me for several reasons.

tetsujin29 09-01-2008 09:57 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fantasio (Post 3265905)
Logout from kde ant at this time you should be able to choose between kde or gnome.
Why not, from Mandriva to OpenSuSE.

What video driver do you use ? A "generic" driver can decrease the global performance of your system.
What are the amounts of swap (total and used) ?

Each one has his preferences, mine goes to OpenSuSE. I have worked during a little bit more than a year on Ubuntu (at work), I'm convinced, that distro has some very interesting things but it's not for me for several reasons.
Here is my video card information:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Trigem Computer Inc. Unknown device 3189
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
Kernel modules: intelfb, i2c-i810


Here is the memoryinformation:

total used free shared buffers c
Mem: 884 610 273 0 31
-/+ buffers/cache: 327 557
Swap: 3992 0 3992


Anything that stands out?

Is OpenSuse suitable for linux newbies?

THanks for all the help!


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