Hello All; I recently did a Redhat 7.3 installation on a friend's computer to introduce him to Linux, and to put it bluntly, the performance really stinks.
The preliminary tech specs are - Compaq Presario 5301, AMD 380 mhz CPU, 256 megs shared memory (248 for the system, 8 for the integrated video). The installation was a fresh triple boot installation (Win 98, Win 2000, and Linux using the NT bootloader) on a new 40 gig, 7200 rpm Western Digital hard disk. Win 98 installed first with 4 gigs, Win 2000 next with 26 gigs, and Linux last with 8 gigs. The Linux install was a 256 meg swap partition, and one big 8 gig partition for /. The system didn't recognize the 40 gig disk size at first; after a BIOS upgrade, it recognized the full capacity. The original disk (4 gigs) was left in as a second disk for storage (formatted with FAT32 and Win 98) During the install I had selected "check disk for bad blocks" and the disk check was excrutiatingly slow (took about an hour). After install, every command run in Linux takes forever. (Win 98 and Win 2000 run just fine.) What could be causing such poor performance? Just speculating out loud, I'm wondering if installing Linux at the end of a large drive has something to do with it, because with the other specs (CPU speed, and RAM), it should be running pretty good. Any comments/insights? Paul Greene _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
