One more thing I forgot to mention, one of the default settings in hdparm was readahead set to 8. In the man pages, it mentions that this could make you drive access slower. What are other peoples experiences with this setting.
regards Greg On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 19:32, Greg wrote: > 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
