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oname
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 Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:08 am Post subject: Really long laod times |
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Hey people
i have a laptop pent M 1.6Ghz 1G of ram 60G and after i boot in to gnome it takes like 10 seconds on average for Firefox to load and say 30 seconds for something like Writer from open office to load but once they have loaded once they quickly open (second or 2) when executed again from caching i imagine, but i cant figure out why the long load times for first execution. i have recompiled my kernel a few times changing things over adding things and taking things away that i thought might be causing the problem.
Does this sound like software or hardware to anyone? just need a point in the right direction.
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Xanadu
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: Re: Really long laod times |
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| oname wrote: | Hey people
i have a laptop pent M 1.6Ghz 1G of ram 60G (...)
Does this sound like software or hardware to anyone? just need a point in the right direction.
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(emphasis mine)
Hardware.
Most laptops these days STILL have slow-ass 4200 RPM drives in them. You should check that on your machine. My laptop (what I'm typing on) is an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600. It's only a PIII-750 with 256M RAM. Once things load once, this machine is actually quite peppy. Booting takes quite a long time (about 1.5 mins to go from LILO to KDE playing my intro file) thus I have hibernation working 100% so I don't have to actually boot it very often at all.
I also have a desktop at my Apt. that's a PIII-800 with only a bit more RAM and it runs circles around this laptop for cold-load times and OOo loads and such. Why? The drives in the desktop are 7800 RPM drives; this laptop has a 4200 RPM drive.
Realistically, the only thing you could do is replace the HD with a 7800 RPM drive which is what I'm going to do with this machine soon (since I will not have the money for a newish, more current laptop anytime this century from the looks of my financial "progress" as of late... :\).
I hope something I said helps!
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IQgryn
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure about standard laptop drive speeds, but 7200 rpm is standard for desktops. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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[url] | IQgryn wrote: | | I'm not sure about standard laptop drive speeds, but 7200 rpm is standard for desktops. |
D'oh!
Umm... yea... sorry about that. Miss-typed.
Still, the point I was making was that laptop drives are (usually) MUCH slower than desktop drives and that'll make any and all cold-starts LONG.
Laptop Hard Drives
The standard seems to be 5400 RPM these days. Still noticeably slower than Desktop's drives. And the drive in this machine is a 4200 RPM, I just opened the bay to check to make sure I typed at least that part right... 
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oname
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:34 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply, and yeah i though about that as well but when i had XP on the lappy it wouldn't experience this kind of behavior. definitely not this long a load time.
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| oname wrote: | Thanks for the reply, and yeah i though about that as well but when i had XP on the lappy it wouldn't experience this kind of behavior. definitely not this long a load time.
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Well...
Win LOOKS like it loads faster. Yes, it gets to a "Desktop" faster than KDE/Gnome/etc. will. BUT you also have to consider that Win also takes ~5 mins (depending on hardware, of course) to get to a USABLE desktop meaning: Sure it's fine that the icons are there and the Start Menu is there, but all the services and what not are still chugging away loading in the background and that leaves you sitting there waiting for that part to finish before it's totally usable. With *NIX, all the service loading happens before X even starts to load.
So it all depends on how you look at it whichis "faster", ya know?
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