[SOLVED] upgrade to current makes my computer run considerably slower
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upgrade to current makes my computer run considerably slower
I just replaced pclinuxos with slackware 13.1. it ran faster, but I didn't like the fact a few things were outdated. so i updated to -current. now it runs insanely slow, takes forever to load and every time I switch windows it reads the hard drive a lot more than it should as if it's using a large amount of swap. I've checked the system monitor and it says its using 400mb of memory and 145mb swap(rather higher than my windows xp sp3 install). thing is i can't find the process thats using all the memory. the most being used supposedly is 115mb by firefox followed by, x at 65mb. and there are 150 processes running.
is there any way to get the speed back without going back to 13.1?
what steps did you do in order to upgrade to -Current?
for me, i don't see a performance downgrade on all of my machine (i'm following -Current all the time)
i selected overwrite and save old as .old. also i was not aware that there was an importance to the order. i've been doing it that was since slackware 12.2. I'm running clean system now... kinda forgot that step.
There's an importance to the order to overwrite files? I didn't know that, I'm currently updating to -Current myself (which is taking forever by the way, three hours and counting... Maybe I picked a bad mirror).
bad mirror? bad time of the day? the last mirror in the file is an oc-48 connection, it took me about an hr or so to upgrade. it runs much better now that i ran clean-system. and i've always chose 0 when it gets to the end.
Must have been a slow mirror. After it finished I chose the OC-48 one and tested it out by using slackpkg updae and it was done a lot quicker than my other mirror.
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