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radoscak

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 20

System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

HI my system is too slow can you help, it takes to start any program about 20s, even ubuntu is faster. I tryed various X window managers[icewm,gnome,kde] it is still slow.

fatlarry

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Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 31

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

As root:

ps aux

then look what's eating your CPU and/or memory.

radoscak

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 20

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

just one program eats something about 5% of CPU and I have 2GB ram 95% is free, also cpu works on 5%, it must be other caus

zyghom

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From: Poland/currently Africa

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 432

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Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i cpu
hdparm -tT /dev/sda
free
ps -ef |wc
/etc/hosts
uname -a
and
ps -ef (if you are not privacy freak :-) )

Last edited by zyghom (2008-05-15 13:13:38)

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kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

from the wki
Q) Why is Arch so slow? I thought it's supposed to be fast!

A) Make sure that your hostname is correctly set in /etc/hosts (i.e., that it matches the hostname in /etc/rc.conf. Have a look at "Configure the System" in The Beginner's Guide). If the hostnames do not match, applications may start up very slowly.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FAQ … be_fast.21

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radoscak

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 20

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

epiphany is eating 50% of CPU, for what???
Is that normal?

radoscak

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 20

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

Ok  I have this line in /etc/rc.conf
HOSTNAME="r-c-laptop"

and this in /etc/hosts
#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain    localhost r-c
192.168.1.99 r-c.domain.org  r-c
# End of file

where hostname is "r-c" static ip is "192.168.1.99"
can you tell what is there wrong, because everything is still slow

scrawler

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Registered: 2005-06-07

Posts: 318

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

I belive that should be

127.0.0.1     localhost.localdomain     localhost
192.168.1.99     r-c-laptop.whatever     r-c-laptop

in /etc/hosts

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

Ok  I have this line in /etc/rc.conf
HOSTNAME="r-c-laptop"

and this in /etc/hosts
#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain    localhost r-c
192.168.1.99 r-c.domain.org  r-c
# End of file

where hostname is "r-c" static ip is "192.168.1.99"
can you tell what is there wrong, because everything is still slow

huh?

Tenken

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Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 126

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

Ok  I have this line in /etc/rc.conf
    HOSTNAME="r-c-laptop"

    and this in /etc/hosts
    #<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
    127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain    localhost r-c
    192.168.1.99 r-c.domain.org  r-c
    # End of file

    where hostname is "r-c" static ip is "192.168.1.99"
    can you tell what is there wrong, because everything is still slow

huh?

He has the host name set to two different names. "r-c-laptop" on the rc.conf file and just "r-c" in the hosts file

hk2717

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From: China

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 217

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

Hi all, I am using DHCP thus do not have a static IP. How should I setup /etc/hosts? Currently I have only one line in it:
"127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain    localhost     box"

As you see, my hostname is "box".

radoscak

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 20

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

it works like scrawler wrote

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: System to slow, slower than ubuntu can you help

Hi all, I am using DHCP thus do not have a static IP. How should I setup /etc/hosts? Currently I have only one line in it:
"127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain    localhost     box"

As you see, my hostname is "box".

that should be fine