[TriLUG] mandrake performance?

[Owen Berry]

Unfortunately I don't have anything particular to suggest, but I did
want to point out that this is not normal for Mandrake 9.1. I am running
it on an ageing Toshiba laptop with a Celeron 600 Mhz processor, 192 MB
ram, 4 MB video memory, 6 GB hard drive, 140 MB swap. I routinely run
Gnome, Galeon, Evolution, gaim, Anjuta and a few terminals, along with
Apache, postfix and imapd and don't have these performance woes. Of
course I'm sure it would be a lot better on a higher spec machine, but I
have no complaints with my day to day activities.

There must be something wrong in the setup or the hardware. Good luck.

-- Owen

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 10:38, Dean Price wrote:
> I have had this problem running Mandrake 9.1 on my home system.. I as
> well tried to tweak hdparm with those setting only to no prevail.
> 
> I run an Intel 2.2 Ghz, 1GB pc800 rambus, Turtle beach sound, ATI AIW
> Radeon 8500DV, 120GB Maxtor w/2MB data burst cache.
> 
> Networking was setup fine, 
> 
> So if anyone has any other suggestions, it would be appreciated.
> 
> Dean Price
> dprice153 at charter.net
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:12, zzd wrote:
> > On Friday September 05 2003 12:16 pm, Jim Priest wrote:
> > > Installed Mandrake 9.1 last night on my box - blew away Win2000. 
> > >....
> > > If I can speed it up I think I could leave it on there and move to
> > > Linux at home - I'm really impressed with the progress of Gnome/KDE!
> > 
> > Have you checked to see if your hard drives support DMA? I set both DMA 
> > and 32bit data I/O using hdparm at the tail end of /etc/rc.local
> > 
> > /sbin/hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/$device
> > 
> > where $device is one of the following
> > hda, hdb, hdc, hdd, hde, hdf, hdg, hdh