[TriLUG] Mandrake 9.1

[Nick Goldwater]

I have 512 of ram. Any suggestions on the hard drive?
Nick


> 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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