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
