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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
