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