Message-ID: <D4B5A97C4DB3D4118BE40060B06654B0016FF615@med003.medicine.rochester.edu> From: "Smith, Darrin" <Darrin_Smith@URMC.Rochester.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:56:35 -0400 Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] ss2 slow
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lettner Gert [mailto:gert_lettner@yline.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 2:29 AM
> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> Subject: [suse-sparc] ss2 slow
>
>
> i upgraded my ss2 from 40 mb (!, yes it works ... :=) to
> 104 mb (with a sbus 64 mb expansion board). i see the
> memory when the post runs. but: kde is slow as it was
> before the upgrade (yes, yes, i know the minimum of ram is
> 48 mb for kde).
> is there anything i have overlooked (i installed the ss2
> with 40 mb). do i have to reinstall or can i edit some
> configuration files for better use of the new ram?
> greetings
> LG
For the record on all these posts about slow SS2's, I agree -
it's a lot slower than it should be. I used to have RH4(I think)
with kernel 2.0 loaded on it and interactive performance was
much better than it is now.
I have a SS2 here now with 32Mb ram, no Xwin, no other services,
and ntop crawls - sometimes it even drops http requests. I
just can't believe this is normal. A kernel recompile might
help, but I haven't done it yet.
The only other variable is disk size. There used to be a bug
in the kernel where large disks would exponentially slow down
performance. A 500Mb disk would work fine, but a 2Gb disk was
unbearably slow(12hours to format with ext2!). I now have 6Gb
attached to the machine.
Finally, I also have to agree that KDE on such a machine is
asking a bit much. Even my k6-200 wouldn't do a decent job
of running KDE.
--drsmith
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