[TriLUG] Mandrake 9.1
Jon Carnes
jonc at nc.rr.com
Thu Apr 24 08:29:46 EDT 2003
How much RAM do you have? Your application start-up times are very
similar to mine (almost identical) and I run a AMD 300 with an old POS
IDE drive, and 96MB of RAM.
My guess: the bottleneck is your hard drive. I'll bet your not getting
the speed out of it that you could (hdparm).
Jon Carnes
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 07:35, Nick Goldwater wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced Mandrake 9.1 having VERY slow program
> initializations? It seems to take 15-30 seconds for Mozilla to start up. 3-5
> seconds to open a shell and when KDE first starts up it could take up to 1
> minute to finish. I am running a AMD 1700 with DDR and ATA133 hard drives. I
> don't think it's my hardware. Once the programs are up there seems to be no
> latency.
>
> Nick
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