Fedora Core 3 test 2 performance

VJ vj at vijaygill.homelinux.net
Fri Oct 8 12:01:34 UTC 2004


But he set DMA to 1 ( -d1 ).
VJ

On Fri, October 8, 2004 1:00 pm, Ted Kaczmarek said:
>
>
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 07:29 -0400, Glenn Stauffer wrote:
>> I installed Core 3 test 2 on a Dell Precision M50 laptop.  The
>> performance is abysmal.
>>
>> >From the login screen to the desktop takes almost 4 minutes.  Disk
>> performance seems to have a lot to do with this.  With an hdparm line
>> like:
>>
>> hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 /dev/hda
>>
>> I see variable results.  with repeated cycles of hdparm -t, I'll see
>> anything from 570 kB/sec to 10 MB/sec.  Nothing higher.  Other  Dell
>> laptop users report read rates closer to 20 MB/sec from what I can
>> glean from Internet posts.
>>
>> Any good resources for tuning a Fedora system?  Any other advice?
>>
>> Thanks, Glenn
>
>
> dma setting may be your problem.
>
> Ted
>
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