Fedora Core 3 test 2 performance

[Ted Kaczmarek]

Did enabling dma speed it up?

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Hardware/Hard_Drive_Speed_Tweak_for_Linux.html

Should have pasted this before.

I get consistent 36.00 MB/sec on my Sager, but it has 7200 rpm drive and
this is with FC2 running 2.6.8-1.521.

Ted

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 13:01 +0100, VJ wrote:
> 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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