[LUNI] Sloooooooow

[Arun K. Khan]

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 07:11 -0600, Christopher S. Susi wrote:
> Over the weekend I installed SUSE 10.2 on an IBM T30 (a P4-M 1.8GHz).  On a
> stock install of Gnome and minimal software packages, the system is
> surprisingly slow.  For instance it took several minutes to move 105 MB from
> one directory to another.  Opening Firefox took about 30 seconds.
> 
> Is there an obvious thing I'm missing here?  I've considered switching over
> to one of the other distros, such as Ubuntu or Fedora to see if that helps.

I am using opensSuSe 10.2 (i386) on my desktop and response is
acceptable (RAM: 1GB, CPU AMD64/2.0GHz).  How much RAM do you have?  

A few years ago a similar scenario happened to me on a Toshiba Tecra
8000 (256MB, PII-366).  Originally the system response was OK but over
time it became slow.  It turned to be the hard disk.  Eventually, it
RIP'd.

HTH,
-- Arun Khan