Hey all, apologies for the long delay. I'm going to just respond in this thread instead of cluttering with a new one. To recap, I have an older computer running a new Koha, and I just want to make sure that there's no configuration problems before I go out and buy better hardware with my tiny budget. It is too slow to use at present. Robin - Anything and everything is slow. And I mean in the technical sense, I guess - the computer is communicating with the local server and trying to display the next page while I am waiting. The "attempting to contact..." "waiting for..." etc messages show up down in the corner. The slowdown starts as soon as I type 127.0.1.1:8080 into the browser and go. Here, this is during an invalid login request (but it's the same speed with the right data): top - 13:40:26 up 21 days, 1:17, 2 users, load average: 2.00, 1.73, 1.21 Tasks: 179 total, 8 running, 171 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 90.5 us, 9.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 3025912 total, 2820084 used, 205828 free, 210624 buffers KiB Swap: 6155260 total, 7376 used, 6147884 free. 828208 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 28682 www-data 20 0 358772 119388 11720 R 29.9 3.9 0:03.49 404.pl 28684 www-data 20 0 355888 116532 11692 R 29.2 3.9 0:03.26 404.pl 28686 www-data 20 0 349444 112028 11592 R 25.2 3.7 0:03.09 404.pl 28685 www-data 20 0 350104 112676 11632 R 24.6 3.7 0:03.16 404.pl 28683 www-data 20 0 358608 119188 11684 R 23.9 3.9 0:03.49 404.pl 27894 lucelib+ 20 0 1635484 489832 87084 R 20.6 16.2 11:28.66 iceweasel 2874 root 20 0 217468 34652 21428 S 7.0 1.1 16:42.25 Xorg 3119 lucelib+ 20 0 1750188 265052 57864 S 7.0 8.8 19:18.12 gnome-shell 28300 lucelib+ 20 0 411808 27092 20504 S 2.7 0.9 0:02.83 gnome-term+ 936 mysql 20 0 944440 66028 10560 S 1.7 2.2 38:00.12 mysqld 28695 www-data 20 0 24180 5800 3244 R 1.3 0.2 0:00.04 404.pl 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 4:08.34 rcu_sched 28477 root 20 0 23644 2848 2348 R 0.3 0.1 0:01.05 top 1 root 20 0 176152 5020 2984 S 0.0 0.2 0:32.01 systemd 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.74 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 13:23.84 ksoftirqd/0 5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:+ Sorry, that came out very poorly formatted, but mysqld is the next highest item of interest. apache generally doesn't even make it onto this top page, nor does zebra. So I guess the top ones are Koha perl scripts then? Unfortunately I don't have firefox installed at the moment, using iceweasel, but if that data is important I'll go back and get that figured out. Also, one final thing. My Koha installation is text only. The html formatting and visual elements are all missing. Is this a problem with my installation, with the hardware requirements of the computer, or is this a setting problem with Iceweasel? I haven't gotten to compare views in different browsers yet, but I'll get on that. When I went through the graphical installer for Koha I'm pretty sure I just checked all the default options - is there a way to tell if a visual module didn't get installed? Thanks so much for all your help. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-glacially-slow-tp5856288p5860339.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.