New installation painfully slow - how to investigate?

[Major.Mikey]

What more information is needed?

On Saturday 31 December 2005 12:54 am, Kenneth wrote:
> > The new Mandriva 2006 install I just finished is painfully slow in some
> > applications, particularly Firefox, Konqueror, and Kmail ... much slower
> > than my old Mandrake 8.1 system.  I have 512 Meg of Ram and 1 Gig of swap
> > and nothing else running while I do these operations one at a time.  What
> > would be the recommended procedure to try to investigate and remedy this
> > problem?
>
> I would narrow it down as much as possible first.  Are the apps slow to
> start, or slow running after they're up?  Is the CPU usage high when it's
> slow?
>
> In my experience, it's usually a driver issue of some type.  On one system
> the kernel guessed the motherboard chipset incorrectly and the disk
> performance was worse than abysmal.
>
> Video and sound drivers seem to often cause problems if everything isn't
> perfect.
>
> It's hard to be specific without more information.
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