Sirius: Extreme slowness on iBook

[Miguel Garcia]

I had this problem under 2.3.  I do not however have the problem in 3. 
I am running a dual boot G3 Pismo @ 400 MHz but with 512 MB ram.  I have
a base install of OS 10.2 and Development install of YDL.  Open Office
is always slow on the initial boot up.  Subsequent boots should work
fine.  My recommendation is for you to increase your ram as it sounds
like it is the issue.   This is the one thing I changed on my Pismo
before upgrading to 3.  It has helping immensely.  Do a ps -ax on the
command line to see if there is an open PID for Mozilla.  If there is
then kill it and restart.

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 18:02, Paul Sexton wrote:
> I didn't see this in the General or Newbies archives, so it must be 
> rare or solvable.
> 
> I installed 3.0 (downloaded the ISO's) on a single USB (toilet seat) 
> iBook: G3/300, 64 MB, no MacOS partitions.  This is a lightly 
> customized system (added the development stuff and a few other 
> things, deleted most of the server packages), used default 
> partitioning.
> 
> The install & first boot went fine (took a few tweaks/reboots to 
> access my cable modem).  Everything looks good except that launching 
> apps is unusably slow.
> 
> Any OpenOffice app takes 7-8 minutes (it appears in the task bar 
> after 3 or 4) during which the mouse is extremely jerky and takes up 
> to 30 seconds to respond to clicks.
> 
> Mozilla zoomed open and then nothing happened: I may not have given 
> it long enough (it's now been over a day, though.)
> Konqueror took about 5 minutes to start, but ran reasonably after that.
> 
> I recall once seeing a post on google groups where this occurred on 
> YD2.something and an update fixed it.  I ran apt-get (18 packages) 
> but it had no effect on the problem, and it isn't mentioned anywhere 
> on the site that I could find.
> 
> How do I fix this?  I like what I see so far, but it's more like 
> running a screen shot than an OS. I'll try a total vanilla reinstall 
> unless someone has a better idea.
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