Fedora Core 3 test 2 performance
Ted Kaczmarek
tedkaz at optonline.net
Fri Oct 8 12:00:09 UTC 2004
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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