Running very sloooowwwww.

[mgstrein047]

Hey guys I am out of ideas on what to do to try and solve this problem, so any suggestions you have would be awesome.

I'm running Fedora 6 right now on a really old machine.

pentium III ~930 mhz
~390 meg ram

So I don't expect the most amazing results, but right now everything is running really slow. And I can't figure out why.

When I run Top and look at how system resources are being used the cpu is never pushed to the limit. It is always at least 50% idle.

In terms of memory there is always at least 100 meg free and the swap space is not used at all, so I don't think thrashing is going on but I am not sure.

I'm really at a loss for even where to look right now. The system is running slow, and the available resources are not being used. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for where the bottleneck might be and ways to go about finding/confirming what is going on with my system.

Thanks a lot

Michael

[antidrugue]

Though Fedora Core 6 is more a full featured distro then a fast one, it should probably run a little faster. You should try disabling SELinux (in /etc/selinux/config) and system services you don't need.

You can find a lot of good info here :
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...ugs-fixes.html

[yourname3232]

For even more speed, I suggust that you try out a lighter desktop environment such as xfce. You don't have to, but just my .02

[Roxoff]

It could also be that it's not actually running slowly, just that the graphics are slow to update, making it feel slow. Make sure you've got the manufacturer-produced drivers if you have an nvidia or ati video card.

[ryptyde]

You must have something hogging resources if it is 50% idle that means something is consuming 50% of the cpu. Open a terminal and enter:

$ top

and see what is running.

I have FC6 installed on a P3 550MHz with a Nvidia card and Gnome when enabling destop effects it doesn't use 50% cpu.

[yazhini]

Mine is 1gb ram... with nvidia videocard. And gui's take more than a minute to launch in FC6.
FC5 was running completely fine.
$ top tells me just 0.1% cpu memory is being used... any suggestions?

[netstrider]

I'd like to add to this question. I allocated 2GB to SWAP space. (Ok maybe a bit much I know). But I've NEVER seen it being used. But it uses 700MB + of my 1.5GB ram. It's like this with whichever distro I use. At the moment I use PCLinuxOS.

[yazhini]

I found out the solution. It worked fine whenever I was online.
I deactivated the ethernet card when I'm offline and the applications launch properly now.