-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rich Johnson wrote: > Folks-- > > I have just converted an old NEC PG350 (500MHz) w 256MB and 20G(WDC > WD200BB) disk from WIn'98 to Debian Sarge and ran into a problem I've > never before encountered with Debian: > > Performance that is HORRIBLE beyond belief! > > For example: > - ~16 minutes to boot (A 10 yr old 130Mhz PowerPC is faster) to GDM > login screen. > - >2 min. just for for ''calculating module dependencies'' > - >3 min. just for hotplug > - ~10min. from user login to a settled Gnome desktop. > > What gives? I've never seen such bad performance. > What diagnostics/benchmarks should I be looking at? > > Judging from the lackadaisical disk LED activity, I doubt it's the disk.
Have you enabled bootlogd? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEsAisS9HxQb37XmcRAqnOAJ9qcXX5DyWOqFJNDyR2dusSSyMBawCfZPQY mIYRGhgzZglso+lFFH4Hadg= =1JV0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
