Also, one more note on speed. Multitasking programs is a no go with RH it seems at the moment. If I try to load two programs at the same time, it slows down so much it is not funny. An example might be loading browser/email prgrams at the same time. Or, another, if I am doing a file search on the hard drives, and I try to load another program, the other program will take 50+ times longer to do anything.
regards Greg On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 19:26, Greg wrote: > Hi list, > > I am sure other people are experiencing this problem as well, and maybe > it is something we have to live with, but I though I would put it up to > the list for input. > Can people put together some reccomendations as to how to speed up > performance in RH8 a bit, as it is currently about 4-5 times slower than > Windows XP (or other windows versions). > My system is as follows: > P4 1.5g > 512mg 266 ddr ram > Nvidia GF4 MX440 graphics card 64mg ddr ram > 80g WD 7200 rpm hard drive, with 8mg cache > Using a internet connection of 512k through ADSL connection. > > I am finding both normal system use, as well as internet access very > slow. > > My hard drive speed transfers are reported as follows through hdparm: > cached read speeds 428mg /sec > disk reads speeds 45.89m/sec > is this good,normal,bad? > I configured hdparm with experimentation, and this is the fastest I > could get it. DMA is on, 32 bit i/o support, multicount 16, unmaskirq > on. > > What other system settings give improved performance for relatively new > pcs? If people could post some ideas, so I can look into them in more > detail, it would be much appreciated. > > regards Greg > > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
