RedHat 9 problem
Has anybody noticed if redhat 9 slows down your internet connection?
For some reason my internet connection slowed down. I have installed redhat several times and at the begining everything is fine but after a whille the problem comes back. i have also changed my network card for a new one but nothing happened. I have cable and im sharing internet with a friend thorugh a router. My frined's internet speed seems fine. I have a hp computer with 733 mhz and 320 of ram Any ideas Anything will be helpfull Thanks |
Check through your /var/log/syslog for any errors pertaining to network connectivity. RH should NOT slow down you network. Nor should any other OS linux or otherwise.
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I disagree. I don't see why linux can't be a front end OS. I mainly use (debian) linux and I'm thrilled with it. The security, the configurability, the versatility. I'm not saying windows doesn't have it's place (I dual-boot) but I like linux more.
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Slower speed on Redhat?
Personaly I really dont think you can get slowed down internet by using Linux. I run a dual-boot also, Redhat 9/Win. 98. Ive experianced a slowdown as well, it could be due to a router or cable. Also sometimes Cable companys have problems and slower speed results. If you still have problems than I have no Idea, what speed is your cable anyways? Im not sure how to do it on Linux very well but you can easily do it in windows. Try monitoring both OS's speed in internet. other than that I would have to know more about your setup.:confused:
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run ifconfig and look for errors on the interface.. :)
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I don't see Linux as using a lot of resources, or should I say wasting them.
Distro: RedHat 9 kernel: 2.6-test9 wm: KDE MemTotal: 512008 kB MemFree: 335608 kB Buffers: 12668 kB Cached: 89192 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 117432 kB Inactive: 33180 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 512008 kB LowFree: 335608 kB SwapTotal: 1004020 kB SwapFree: 1004020 kB Dirty: 720 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 77136 kB Slab: 21120 kB Committed_AS: 75712 kB PageTables: 1396 kB VmallocTotal: 516024 kB VmallocUsed: 1764 kB VmallocChunk: 514172 kB |
I agree with you there. I had a response all ready but the site wouldn't let me post so I couldn't be bothered retyping it. Basically I said that I only had 256 Mb RAM and was using no swap.
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Not to step on the toes of anyone, but I'm running RH9 on a 750MHz. Laptop w/ 256MB RAM, Yes I noticed sometimes that it was slow (but I'm running on a wirless router, and othe PC's are working as well....
The question here is, WHEN do you notice that the connection is slow, and HOW? I noticed by browsing the web using Mozilla. Ginux P.s. I just want to clear something up, LINUX is the kernel, the various distro's build/add/modify packages (touching up the kernel sometimes), The only difference are the packages. Redhat is NOT Linux, Debian is NOT Linux, etc.... their are distribuitors of the Linux kernel. (I don't mean to offend or insult anyone) it's just my post. ;) :) |
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Mandrake release there kernel for the design of a 586 system. Redhat release there design for the 386 system. Gentoos releases there design for the 686 system. Yellow Dog release there design for the PPC system. NOTE: My understanding supports half what your saying but I'm confused about the other half. My understanding applies to some distro's releasing the same Linux kernal, but not all distro's release the same Linux Kernel. An example: Mandrake and there 2.4.x-x on a 586 Kernel vs Redhat on there 2.4.x-x on a 386 (or 686) kernel. Can you please cure my curiosity? |
Also, why is it that Mandrake recieves a vector error on install for some AMD systems but Redhat does not? Isn't the first thing to be compiled, the kernel?
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Hey that's a great point. It is also true that the admin of the system has complete control over what they are running on the system. If you do a full install I would say compare it to WIndows 2000 server, not a windows desktop system.
Once you have done that I think you will see that it compares quite differently. My meminfo from my previous post pretty much shows the memory use for a kde desktop. Keep in mind that kde is very intense when compared to windows. For one I have a loaded panel, 4 desktops with 2.5 MB pictures on them, 6 virtual consoles, a system logging daemon, ssh server, kppp, a couple of shells open, and some other stuff. Therefore I would like to know where the 400 MB figure for RH 9 comes from, since I'm using 180 MB and a lot of that is actually cached, not used. |
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Mandrake, is more for the end user, (that would explain the packages and driver support) so they prepare the kernel to set it self to the highest possibile configuration. RedHat, is more of a general use (notice less packages) and they set the kernel to se it self to the best configuration. Installing RH or SuSE, on a dual CPU machine would create a kernel called (2.4.20-smp**), the kernel recognized that the system had 2 or more cpu's so it compiled it self with smp support, using the same CD's on another single cpu system, would not enable smp. (no that wasn't clear) Let me try another way... You can compile a kernel in Mandrake for a 386, or what ever.... The kernel (ex. 2.4.20) is the same for both, the only thing that changes is the configuration number (2.4.20-**whatever**) anybody can d/l the latest kernel from the web and install it on ANY distro (as long it's a linux of course ;)) I remmember reading somewhere about this in more detail... I'll post it ASAP when I find it. Ginux |
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