Slow TTY, slow apps, improve compiling?

adelgado · 2009-10-20 00:56:19

Hello everyone!

I'm not sure if this is the right section, but I am a begginner after all, so I guess my doubts fit here

Q1: I installed and configured my Arch install on a pretty good machine, but I dont feel I'm getting all of it. I feel usage is a bit slow in launching applications such as Firefox or Nautilus.

I am using Openbox with some GNOME apps mainly.

Q2: Also, may be an unrelated matter, but the TTYs feel slow, and they're slow to display text, having a line-by-line effect.

Specifications

CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2,66GHz@3,20GHz
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6
Memory - 4 x Kingston HyperX 1GB 1066MHz DDR2

Q3: What should I do to make sure that all cores are being well-used, what are some packages I could compile locally that would enhance my performance?

Thank you in advance!

Last edited by adelgado (2009-10-20 00:56:47)

flamelab · 2009-10-20 01:27:55

What's your graphics' card and which driver did you install ?

Have you read the GNOME wiki and that thing about slow GNOME and the configuration of /etc/hosts ?

Last edited by flamelab (2009-10-20 01:29:06)

adelgado · 2009-10-20 02:05:34

flamelab wrote:

What's your graphics' card and which driver did you install ?
Have you read the GNOME wiki and that thing about slow GNOME and the configuration of /etc/hosts ?

My graphic card is a XFX NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT. I don't quite remember how I installed it, but I believe I followed this guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia

Also,

elros@blackpearl:~$ sudo pacman -Qs nvidia
local/nvclock 0.8b4-1
    A small utility which allows users to overclock NVIDIA based video cards
local/nvidia 185.18.36-2
    NVIDIA drivers for kernel26.
local/nvidia-utils 185.18.36-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.

Oh, and my /etc/hosts is properly configured.

Last edited by adelgado (2009-10-20 02:06:42)

gog · 2009-10-20 03:15:56

its kind of hard to diagnose with out clear info

logs, etc?

adelgado · 2009-10-20 11:01:34

Tell me which file or command output you need and I'll post it :-)

The problem's that there aren't any freezes or crashes, just general slugginess... =/

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#1 2009-10-20 00:56:19

Slow TTY, slow apps, improve compiling?

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