On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:16:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 13:09:55 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > I have a HP Pavilion dv8000z laptop with a 2.0 ghz AMD Turion, a gig of > > ram, and dual 80 gig hard drives. > > > > I have tried to install the AMD 64 version of Sarge twice on this > > machine. Both times it has been so slow I've given up and installed the > > 32 bit version of Sarge. I just did, or should say attempted, an 64 bit > > install today. It took 55 minutes to do a base install from a > > netinstall cd, 10 minutes of which it spent on just loading the > > kernel-image package. I can complete a default 32 bit Sarge desktop > > install in approximately the same amount of time. > > > > I started my install at 11:15 this morning, it is now 12:59, and the > > system is just now unpacking the downloads for a default desktop > > install. That's 1 3/4 hours and it hasn't even begun setting up > > packages yet. This install will probably take at least 3 hours to > > complete, if not more. > > > > Anyone know why this is so slow? I would have completed the same > > default desktop bit install an hour ago on this machine if I had > > installed the 32 bit version of Sarge. Running 32 bit sarge or sid this > > laptop is every bit the equal of my 32 bit desktop machines of similar > > cpu speed even though it only has 4200 rpm hard drives and my desktops > > have 7200 rpm hard drives. > > > > The 64 bit version of Debian makes this thing crawl. It takes at least > > 8 - 10 seconds to open Firefox. The 32 bit install opens Firefox in > > less than 1/2 the time. > > Maybe the 64 bit install has a problem with DMA; that can cost you a > factor 10 in harddrive access times. You can check this with "hdparm". > > -- > Regards, > Florian
I had trouble with extreme sloth of an AMD64 install; using an installer with a more recent kernel seemed to improve things. I don't know what the problem was. With the slow installer I never got as far as running the system, though. God it was *slow*! -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
