Re: Mandriva 2010 SLOW

Rodney wrote:
> I have installed 2010 free on my Dell Latitude 610 - 1GB RAM - and it 
> is amazingly slow.  The CPU shows 100% load whenever I do anything and 
> scrolling a pdf is almost impossible because the delay is so 
> confusing.  It will no longer run Virtual Box so I have lost the easy 
> Windows option.
>
> I have stopped all the extras I can find (fancy cursors etc) but no 
> noticeable improvement.
>
> On 2008.1 Powerpack it was fast and handy and not even too slow 
> running Win2k under Virtual Box, so 2010 is a disaster.
>
> Could the difference possibly be caused by using Free rather than 
> Powerpack? (I could pay, though work no longer justifies this, but 
> don't want to waste cash as well as time.)
>
> Can anyone offer an alternative to reinstalling 2008?
>
> Rodney 
just a quick guess, this is usually caused by a resolv.config 
incorrectly looking to DNS first then timing out instead of an 
/etc/hosts file for local host 127.0.0.1, not any differences between 
the power-pack and free versions.
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