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
