You can also try accessing Koha from another machine over the network and see if it’s faster. If it is, then the fault is in the GUI elements (e.g. non-supported video cards, or requiring activation of “proprietary drivers”) so you can work on remedying that.

Note that you really shouldn’t be running any program on the Koha machine anyway. Koha is designed to be accessed remotely via the web interface.

If you did all those and still found it to be slow … well, I really have no further tricks. Personally, I’ve tried on an Intel E5200 with 1 GB RAM and a 5400 RPM 160 GB HDD and it works fine as a production server. (The MB was workstation-grade Asus P5KPL-AM, for the record.) I’ve mostly used the live cd for client demo using a laptop with Intel E2100 which works quite fine. Not blazing fast of course, but works well for a demo. I’ve also experimented on my Fujitsu U1010 ultraportable which has a lowly A110 processor and it was actually tolerable.

Another note is that while the livecd was designed to work out of the box, it was _not_ designed to be efficient out of the box. You will need to tweak your system. (especially apache/mysql) In other words, the primary goal was compatibility and ease of installation.

There’s also another often-forgotten option – simply use more powerful hardware.

Could you tell me the specs (Brand/Model, CPU, RAM, HDD, etc.) of the server that Koha’s running on?

I appreciate your efforts towards opensource community to make things easier. I just installed Koha live CD. As Vimalkumar said, Ubuntu is little bit slow in processing. When try to activate any program, it works slow.

Sorry, I had compiled Koha without zebra support in order to minimize deployment problems since this is aimed at newbies. It’s a popular demand though, so I’ll work
on putting the zebra server onto the same livecd in the next release.

Mizst

i’ve tried your live cd and it’s awesome..

i installed the release 2 live cd but i think the Zebra does’nt work, if not, may i know the steps in configuring zebra,, thanks sir.

i’ve already installed the live cd to my PC and i want to start over again, but not to reinstall again the whole system, is there a way to start again to the web installer, so much so that i can reinstall the koha only.. thnks, more power…

I’m not sure what you’re trying to do. If you want to reinstall Koha again simply boot from the CD again and start over. For newbies, that would be the easiest way.

Mizst

how about reinstalling again and going back to the web installer again, any steps to accomplish these :)

sorry i’m a little newbie here in KOHA, :)

thnks and more power,,