booted and its slow...

**TanZed** · 05-12-2004, 05:15 PM

I boot knoppix 3.4 2004-05-04 and its really really slow I dunno but dont think its the RAM...
I burned it to a 700MB cd and it loads just dont spin very fast so I think thats the problem its almost as if it has problems finding the data on the cd...
any help on this whoud be helpfull thank you...

**Cuddles** · 05-12-2004, 05:32 PM

TanZed,

I can't speak from experiance on the v3.4, I am currently still running v3.3, but, when I was running v3.3 off the CD, I used a DVD/CD drive, rated, I think, at 24x. It was slow, anytime I asked to do a program, like Frozen-Bubble, or fire off DiskFree, it did take a little time for the drive to spin-up, then access the drive, and finally, load and start the program.

How fast is the CD drive?

I can atest though, booting up was quick, surprisingly quick, considering it was all loading off of a 24x DVD drive. I think the boot-up time was comperable to what boot-up time I am getting having the system installed on the hard drive now. (probably due to the fact I have more things "auto-starting" on boot-up on the hard drive install [?])

Hopefully, this helps,
Ms. Cuddles

**TanZed** · 05-12-2004, 05:41 PM

ok I have a 52x CD and a 24x DVD drive tried em both and same thing it takes 20 min to start mozilla or start the console...
I have no problems other then that, only some apps wont start at all like XMMS wont start at all beacuse the cd dont spin up and after 4 min it closes on its own...
I am new to linux tried Red hat 9.0 but coudnt get on the internet with it...
thank I will try to go exactly by the FAQ guide this time and if it dont work I will ask again what the problem might be...

**Cuddles** · 05-12-2004, 05:57 PM

Yikes

Minutes? Mine never took minutes, maybe 1/2 minutes, but never more than, say, 30 seconds. I think the drive is fine, since you have tried it on more than one, and get the same results.

This could come down to your system, and what you have in it...

Processor speed, and type, amount of RAM, swap disk (if any, and how large), stuff... I ran Knoppix off two systems, one was a 433MHz with 312 M RAM, and the other being a 1.7GHz with 512 M RAM. My system was not that (notably) slower using the "older" system, only problem was with some "video intensive" games, the video card was a speed issue, but the systems performed about the same as far as booting, and starting up programs.

I wouldn't count out the video either... Is the video running off main memory, as in, your video is on the motherboard, or do you have a seperate video card and memory installed on the system? My system was slower with I used the "shared" memory of a "on motherboard" video, and then installed an actual video card with its own memory.

Hope this helps, and good luck,
Ms. Cuddles

**user unknown** · 05-12-2004, 06:07 PM

It only occurs for several apps?
Maybee the disk is damaged?

Or is every bigger program slow?
Perhaps some buggy acpi, trying to save some power and to shut down the drive, while accessing it?

**zentu** · 05-13-2004, 02:58 AM

If you havent cleaned the Drive, or check for Smuges/scratches on the disk, you may want to. Can't tell you how many data errors I have had due to Dust and other Stuff that has impared my drive head.

**k-user** · 05-23-2004, 08:17 PM

Even my computer does not take that long to load programs when running from CD. Spec:
o P133 MHz
o 80Mb RAM (500Mb Swap)
o 2x 4.3Gb Hdd (One has Windows, other is not used for OS)
o Cirrus Logic 5446PCI on-board chip w/2Mb VRAM

I think that the CD-ROM drive is a 16x drive (used SiSoft Sandra and it reported this figure, although there is no label on the device ==> Compaq CRD-8161B)

It does seem strange that it is taking so long to start programs.

Paul.