On 19 Dec 2003 12:55:58 -0500 Stephen Oulton <roulton623-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
When I ran top it told me that from 5.1 to 6.6 percent of my CPU was being used.
85 programs were being used 81 were sleeping 2 were running and 2 were zombie.
That doesn't seem like a lot.
No, doesn't sound like anything is chewing up your CPU or memory.
Maybe it is because the install crashed and I had to make it work with my limited experience. I tried to install it 3 times and it crashed during install every time.
I even formated the drive and tried a clean install and it still crashed on install.
That is highly unusual. Don't get me wrong, I had my install of 9.2 hang on me once, but I just restarted the install from scratch and all was well. I'm by no means the biggest expert on here, but I see two real possibilities: The installation is corrupted somehow. Maybe one or more of the ISO's were bad? Hence the hideously bad experience on install...always check md5sums! md5sum filename.iso and compare it to what's on the Mandrake site. More likely though is some hardware issue, I'm thinkin' bad RAM. Come to think of it, you never did mention how much RAM you have in that machine (you really should have at the very least 128, but if you are running KDE or Gnome, those can really chew up memory, so 256 is what I usually recommend). I would try swapping out the RAM and see if the performance doesn't change. Also, right after you boot up, open a term and type: dmesg > dmesg.txt then open that text file in an editor and look for any errors, esp with regard to memory. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Well, he might as well have been bombing Denmark." -- Gore Vidal, on the bombing of Afghanistan after 9/11 -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml