I have FC2 on Dell Inspiron 8200, P4 Mobile 2.0Ghz, with 512 MB and performance, in KDE especially, can be outrageously bad. Menus can take couple of seconds to open etc. I also run Debian on the same machine, same version of KDE (3.2.2), and the difference in performance is very obvious. I have DMA enabled, but I didn't test any further.
I didn't work with FC1 for long on this machine, but I remeber having exactly the same problems. Uri On Wednesday 02 June 2004 14:23, Adir Abraham wrote: > Hi Omer, > > On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Omer Zak wrote: > > The system configuration is: > > 128MB memory > > 256MB swap > > 1.7GHz Intel Mobile Celeron (stepping 07) processor (3381.65 BogoMIPS) > > Gnome desktop > > > > What should I check in order to speed up the system? > > Although you might not like to hear this, you should blame your > hardware. Upgrade your hardware... > > 128MB of memory is too little for today's demands. You should upgrade it > to 256MB, although 512MB is highly recommended. You can add another > 256MB SODIMM chip to your laptop so you will have 384MB total. It can more > than serve you the best for the next few years. > > Your processor is quite on the limit. What kind of processor is it? Is it > the "regular" Celeron? or is it Celeron-M? If it's a regular Celeron, then > it is not good. Your computer will probably have heat problems if you try > to squeeze it too much (even though regular Celeron processors can fit > into laptops since they have some primitive heat control - it is not it > as they had not been created for laptops-use in the first place). > You should have gone for a Pentium 4-M 2.0GHz, the least, although any > Pentium M (not 4-M) would do good for you. At least 1.4GHz (see the > differences - Pentium M != 4-M != 4). > > You also didn't say what's the size of your HD, and what's its speed > (4200RPM or 5400RPM. I highly doubt that it is 7200RPM). It can highly > affect the performance of your whole system. > > Last but not least, maybe you actually don't have DMA activated (suppose > your HD is at least UATA 100, it can highly increase your system's > performance). To check your HD's performance, you can do this (suppose > that /dev/hda is your HD. well, it should be): > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > later on, you can try to activate your HD's DMA if you see that it is not > activated, by doing this: > > hdparm -d 1 -A 1 -m 16 -u 1 -a 64 /dev/hda > > If DMA wasn't activated, you will highly feel the differences. > Whatsoever, I still recommend you to do some hardware upgrade. At least > add some memory. I also assume that the swap is used too much because you > don't have enough RAM. If you want to be really free with what you run on > a KDE/Gnome environment, add 256MB to your laptop, so you will have 384MB > at least. In addition to enabling DMA for your HD (in case it wasn't done > by your distribution automatically) - your problem will be solved and you > will dramatically see a different. > > Best regards, > > Adir. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -------------------- Uri Sharf, Linmagazine http://linmagazine.co.il ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
