I found the problem. Apparently magicdev was causing the problems. "rpm -e magicdev" solved it.
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 12:06, Joris Struyve wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed RH80 on a Dell Inspiron 8200. Performance is > extremely poor when working in a gnome or kde session. Starting mozilla > or openoffice (or any other app that does lots of disk access on > startup) takes more than one minute. When I start a failsafe session > however, performance is normal. The performance problem is clearly disk > related. > > Disk performance test in a gnome or kde session: > /dev/hda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.31 seconds = 12.06 MB/sec > > In a failsafe session: > /dev/hda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.06 seconds = 20.88 MB/sec > > hdparm /dev/hda: > /dev/hda: > multcount = 16 (on) > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq = 0 (off) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 8 (on) > geometry = 7296/255/63, sectors = 117210240, start = 0 > > > Regards, > Joris > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
