to be intolerably slow.
B. AGP is Advanced Graphics Port or some such acronym, it only has to do
with video card and ram used for that AGP port.
C. Redhat 8.0 is not a "slower dog" in my expierence. On my workstation I have
a less powerful machine then you, and it's absolutely fluid, ofcourse I'm using
Gnome, not KDE. I can also tell you that on some pretty powerful servers we have
it on, it's performance numbers are fantastic.
The only thing I can think of why yours would be slow is a possible hardware
incompatibility in the stock kernel, and/or maybe not enough RAM, if your gonna
run X, you need quite a bit, and swap just isn't gonna cut it.
If you want to investigate the kernel possibility, grab the latest beta from kernel.org,
and compile it up, see if you notice a difference.
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:22, Polar Humenn wrote:
Hmmmm Somebody told me that all the packages besides the kernel arehttps://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
compiled for the 386, not the 686, and this might have a significant
impact. However, when I ran with Slackware, I think all their binary
packages are compiled for the 386 as well, and I didn't notice the
slowness.
I've gone into my BIOS and knocked down the memory for the AGP aperture
from 128MG to 64MB. (I don't even know what an AGP is. Could somebody
please enlighten me?).
I also found out that I only have 256MB of RAM, not 512M, like I had
originally thought. However, this seem to make a difference with my
previous system.
Is there some setting somewhere for bus bandwith or something? I noticed
this IDE is running with a "default" of 16. Should it be 32? I gather
there is no way to tuning the SCSI? What about processor speed? As far as
the BIOS is concerned, I'm running "Normal" not "Compatible".
It could just be that RH 8.0 and all the new stuff is just a slower dog on
the same machines, err like Windoze is.
Thanks,
-Polar
On 4 Mar 2003, Joe Polk wrote:
> Polar,
> Given your results below, I decided to test my own. I'm finding much
> poorer results (So, count your blessings). My laptop results are:
>
> # ./hdparm -acd /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> readahead = 8 (on)
>
> # ./hdparm -t /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.00 seconds = 12.79 MB/sec
>
> My server, rather old dual PII with SCSI disks:
>
> # hdparm -t /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.33 seconds = 10.11 MB/sec
>
> This is disappointing to say the least, but how can one improve these
> speeds? Anyone?
>
> <<JAV>>
>
>
> > /dev/md0:
> > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.58 seconds = 40.50 MB/sec
> > /dev/hdd:
> > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.94 seconds = 21.74 MB/sec
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
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