[ltp] Slow Linux

[Zymurgeek]

During one upgrade of RedHat (maybe 7.1) on my i1400, updatedb was added
to the cron list.  This slowed the poor beast to a crawl.  If you don't
use locate, you can remove this task.

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:

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> On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 20:12:24 -0400 (EDT)
> "surferjeff@excite.com" <surferjeff@excite.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have a Thinkpad 600 (no E or X.)  I just installed Mandrake 8.1, and
> > for some reason, it's running really slow, like not-really-usable slow.
> 
> I have a 600 (PII/266, no E or X).  I run Redhat 7.3 at the moment, but
> extreme slowmess shouldn't be a problem on Mandrake either.
> 
> Simplest speed tip:  Spend $20 on some RAM.  If you don't have all the RAM
> you can stuff in the machine, get it.  With 224 megs of RAM, my system is
> nice to use.
> 
> > I installed Linux as a loopback file,
> > not on a separate partition.  Is this what's causing it to run so slow?
> 
> That's probably part of the problem right there.  How much of a speed hit
> it causes I can't say, as I've never installed like that.  Best to give
> Linux its own partition(s) if you actually want to get work done on it.
> 
> If it's anything like Slackware's old UMSDOS install, it's slooooow.
> 
> My Thinkpad 600 has a small DOS partition for the hibernation file and
> PS2.EXE, and the rest is Linux.
> 
> > If so, how do I uninstall Linux and re-install it on a separate
> > partition?
> 
> You'll need to resize or nuke your DOS partition.  I'm partial to nuking
> Windows with fdisk, but ... :)
> 
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