On Friday 16 January 2004 11:49 am, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:32:41PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I think my question got berried in the list so I like to add some more > > info and ask again. > > > > One of my two Debian installations is very slow. > > On the bottom I have added the output of top & the output of hdparm. > > > > Intel 1000 MHz, 1000Mb Ram, 40 + 20GB HD > > > > The slow machine: > > Intel Celeron Processor 1 GHz > > 100 MHz System Bus > > 256 KB L2 Cache > > Amptron ?PIII-3758TLM Board v 5.2 > > ? ? MicroATX with SiS630eT Chipset > > > > Kernel: I have tried many. > > > > At first I did not know if the problem was with the hd speed the memory > > speed or the CPU till I found out that it was the CPU load, meanwhile I > > have tried following installations with no change in speed > > > > 1) Regular of the newest Debian CDs > > 2) using Knoppix hdinstall 2.4.22-xfs then upgraded to the 686 Kernel did > > not use xfs > > 3) using Morphix hdinstall with kernel 2.4.21-xfs and used xfs file > > system 4) using Morphix hdinstall with kernel upgrade to 686-smp but did > > not get it to work > > 5) running now Morphix hdinstall with kernel 2.4.21-xfs but not with the > > xfs file system > > > > The problem is the CPU load when idle it runs between 5-30 % > > As soon as I start an application it goes up to 100% and stays there till > > the application is done loading. Loading an application like Kmail takes > > about 2 to 3 minutes. > > > > /dev/hda: > > ?Timing buffer-cache reads: ? 172 MB in ?2.00 seconds = ?86.00 MB/sec > > > > /dev/hdb: > > ?Timing buffer-cache reads: ? 100 MB in ?2.06 seconds = ?48.54 MB/sec > > I'm guessing a bit here, but these figures look very slow for a 100MHz > system bus. Some BIOSes allow you to change various settings to do with bus > speed, DRAM timings and the like. Have these got screwed somehow? Can you > "Load optimised defaults" in the BIOS setup and does it change anything > and/or affect the speed?
I just started Knoppix & Morphix from CD and both run like a charm. Now why would it run slower from a hd install then it runs from CD. I don't have the answer but maybe one of you guys know why that could be. My current install has a 2G swap on /dev/hdb6, 5G / on /dev/hda and /var / home /usr on /dev/hdb5 thru 9 -- Dennis Kaplan http://vmclinks.com http://guyscope.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
