Poor disk drive performance with FC3 RC3

[Steffen Persvold]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 19:51 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:40 -0500, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I just recently installed FC3 RC3 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop and
> > experienced _really_ wierd hard-drive performance (IDE drive). At first
> > I noticed it when trying to start applications such as Evolution,
> > FireFox, OpenOffice etc. but then I started testing it with hdparm -t :
> > 
> > # hdparm -t /dev/hda
> don't use hdparm!
> 
> it's very unreliable for measuring performance; please use something
> like tiobench (tiobench.sf.net) 


Arjan,

Event though I agree that hdparm -t is not the correct tool to test hard
drive performance, your missing my point. My original problem was that
Applications such as Evolution, Firefox, OpenOffice, disk access in
general was _really_ slow. Turning off the HAL daemon fixed that.

Regards,
Steffen