[ILUG] Mandrake 10 and kde 3.2

[John Allen]

On Friday 02 July 2004 15:48, kevin wrote:
> We have been trying out Mandrake 10. Everything appears VERY slow. The main
> kde menu takes several seconds top appear whereas the main kde menu in 9.1
> kde 3.1 was immediate. Applications take several seconds to appear when
> they use to be fast. Anyone any idea why? I thought kde 3.2 and 2.6 kernel
> where mean't to be faster? I have checked for rogue services but this was

Well I'm using 10.0 all the time with KDE 3.2, and its fast. I do have 512MB, 
but I doubt that is the problem.

I'd hazard a guess that it may be a DMA problem.

# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0

Make sure using_dma is on.

> an update and all the services are the same as when we had 9.1. Also the
> machine is an Athlon XP2000 with 256MB ram so we should be OK for
> resources.
>

Indeed.

> Kevin.

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John Allen,                          mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-13mdk
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