On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 22:17, Mike McCarty wrote: > >>>>Its a 2.4gHz Athlon box. > >>>> > >>>>Something wrong with your 58 second machine there Mike :-( > >>> > >>>---- > >>>take his commentary with a grain of salt and recognize that he is using > >>>FC-2 which I am sure few will argue was better abandoned for FC-3 > >> > >>Are you suggesting that FC4 would load it any faster? > > > > > > Probably but I think you have a specific problem on that machine. > > I suspect the specific problem I have is lack of RAM. Or too many programs loaded. Adding RAM is easier than sorting out what you don't really need to run, though. > > I've got a dual pII-450 running FC1 that starts OO in about 10 > > seconds. The first instance of Firefox with google as the home > > page takes about 5 seconds, another window about 2. Does > > hdparm -T -t show somewhere near 30MB/sec for buffered reads? > > > > # hdparm -T -t /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 1096 MB in 2.00 seconds = 547.54 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 66 MB in 3.02 seconds = 21.86 MB/sec > > Is that close enough to 30MB/s? It's less than my ancient PII-450 gets with an almost-as-old 66 mHZ IDE card. A 2.4 gHZ P4 that should be closer to your specs gets 60MB/s. Do you see something like: hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) if you look at 'dmesg | less'? (The UDMA and speed being the relevant part). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
