[ale] new ASUS T2 running Suse 10.0 is slooowwww

[Barlow, Jim D]

Hi Greg,

I've had problems like this before with an ASUS board, and it took a bit
of head scratching to figure out.

The system was so painfully slow that my teenage son refused to use it
as an IM platform.

In my case the BIOS had a memory to bus speed ratio set to [AUTO].
When I set it to an explicit ratio, everything got snappy!

These [auto] settings in your BIOS may be worth a check.   - Jim 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
To: ale at ale.org
Tucker
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:29 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] new ASUS T2 running Suse 10.0 is slooowwww





I got a new ASUS Terminator barebones T2-P. After I put it together I
loaded an old copy of Win98 just to see if everything was okay and I
deleted the Win partition. Ok so I cut corners and got a Celeron 2.93
Ghz
Socket 478 533 FSB for $49 with rebate. I added 1 gig pc3200 and a 120GB
Seagate with 8Mb cache to the T2. I loaded SUSE 10.0 and it is quite
slow.
Everything seems to run okay but it takes a full ten minutes just to
boot.
Clicking on Firefox it takes 35 seconds to popup. I have SUSE 9.1 on an
older box and it boots in a little over a couple of mins.

I updated the bios and all patches.

I could upgrade to a P4 3.2 GHz/ 1 MB cache and 800 MHz FSB and/or add a
SATA drive.
 

 

 Any suggestions? (Besides get an Opteron.) Should I try re-installing?

 

 

 

 

 

 




Greg Tucker
CSC Consulting
cell: 678-643-7431


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