Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)
On 08.07.06 15:15, Rich Johnson wrote:
> 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?
Don't you have disabled/broken CPU L1 and/or L2 cache? Try installing and
running memtest/memtest+
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