Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)
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.
Thx,
--rich
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