Re: [suse-sparc] sparc station 5

From: Ian Donaldson (ian@dsd-tech.co.uk)
Date: Sat Feb 24 2001 - 10:49:34 PST

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    From: Ian Donaldson <ian@dsd-tech.co.uk>
    Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 18:49:34 +0000
    Message-Id: <01022418542900.00633@sparc>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] sparc station 5
    

    On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, semat wrote:
    > I have a sparc station 5 with 64 MB RAM two scsi hard disks 1 and 2GB
    > respectively. I have installed suse 7.0 onto it successfully. However the
    > machine is really slow. Infact it practically crawls. This is the same
    > case with other sparc station 5s I have installed in the same way. ANy
    > ideas on what could be causing this slowness and suggestions on what to
    > do?
    > I used SuSE network oriented system.
    > regards,
    > Noah

    What services have you got running and do you need them, and what are you
    actually doing with it. I have a similarly spec'ed Sparc 5 (70MHz) which I use
    for surfing, email, news and do a bit of PHP and MySQL development. It is quick
    enough for my purposes.

     -- Regards Ian Donaldson

    Newtownards
    Northern Ireland
    ian@dsd-tech.co.uk
    ian@ards.freeserve.co.uk



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