Topic: Slowdown upon upgrade to 5.5!!

[Jens K. Hansen]

I have upgraded my e-smith from 5.1 to 5.5. The primary result of the upgrade is that the machine has become slow like h... Starting the webbased server-manager used to take 5 to 10 seconds. Now I must wait up til half a minute before the server-manager app is ready. It's the same with the local login to the Win2K domain on the e-smith server. My logins under 5.1 was swift - now they are slow. Using the webmail is a pain under 5.5. Copying af file to or from the server is slooooow. It is the same with both my servers running 5.5.

My servers are pentium 266 with 128 megs of ram and 10 gigs ata discs. Are they to small for version 5.5 or is something else wrong?

Must i downgrade to version 5.1 to get acceptable performance or is there a fix for this/something I have done wrong during upgrade?
Since I wouldn't like to reinstall/downgrade I would appreciate any help to get the servers i good condition

/jens

[Peter Hollandare]

Better, downgrade (i see it as a upgrade), to e-smith 4.12.

5.5 is made for PIII or better (no mather what anyone at e-smith says )

[Daniel]

I have been using 4.12 for over a year and I have found three problems.

1) I'm pretty sure the ssh daemon (at least!) is vulnerable, it's a rather old version and I didn't notice any updates to 4.12 other than, well, 5.x

2) All the excellent solutions to various problems put forward in the forums and so on apply to 5.x but not 4.12

3) By default, unless you're running as an NT domain, anyone who types username foo, password bar into a win9x client will get into the ibays unless you explicitly set group permissions -- note that I had assumed that they would be locked out unless an account existed for them on e-smith.

I run 4.12 on a MMX P233 with no speed problems at all, and I run 5.5 on a HP Netserver with a P100 CPU -- again with no problems but it's probably a bit speedier than a strd clone p100, as it was designed as a net server in the first place.

Cheers!