[Ilugc] Re: Mdk 10.1 speed problem
- From: lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chandrashekar Babu)
- Date: Mon Nov 1 22:46:14 2004
boovarahan writes:
Recently I upgraded to MDK 10.1. After that all applications are running
very slow.
Mandrake 10.1 requires a decent hardware configuration to perform well.
It was not satisfactorily fast even on my Athlon XP 1800+ with 256 MB
RAM machine. You will need a faster machine if you are going to use KDE or
Gnome as your desktop environment (on any linux distro, for that matter).
If I start a new application , already started applications, say noatun
gets slowed down.
Here are some things that I would suggest:
1. Disable startup services that you dont use (perhaps NFS, Apache, DNS
resolver, Kudzu, atd, samba and so on...). Optimize your system startup
scripts for faster boot time and to reduce the number of default services
running on your machine (you'll need to know some basic shell scripting to
tweak the rc scripts).
2. If you plan to use KDE, try to reducing bells and whistles, by using
simple themes (like .NET or Windows 9x) and turn off menu transparency, drop
shadow, icon highlighting, and so on.
3. If your video card is a medium/high-end model, check to see if hardware
acceleration is enabled (enable it if you can). Else, try reducing default
depth of X Window System to 16 bit.
Alternately, try migrating to a lean desktop environment like XFCE. You can
also optimally mix and match various components that make your desktop
environment to suit your requirements. Here are some alternatives:
1. For a light fast window manager - try Openbox, WindowMaker,
Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Sawfish, Fvwm2.
2. For managing files and folders, desktop icons, sessions, background and
panel - try ROX-Filer (and ROX-Session).
3. For effective file management - try using Midnight Commander within xterm
window.
4. For playing music, you can try xmms, or command line players like
mpg321, mp3blaster and so on.
5. If you need to use terminals within your X session, avoid the overly
_bloated_ gnome-terminal or konsole. Use rxvt or xterm instead.
There are many more things that you could do to optimize your system
performance depending on your free time and patience. I'm still
productive enough on a Pentium 60 with 16 MB RAM running Linux (with a lean
and mean GUI of course) ;-).
Cheers,
Chandrashekar Babu.
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