Steve Fosdick a écrit, dimanche 13 avril 2003, à 12:57 : > On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:10:30 +0300 > Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A couple of months ago I bought a ThinkPad A 31, it's one of IBM's > > high end models, with a 1.8 Ghz Pentium4 M, and 256 MB of DDR RAM. > > However I am not quite happy with the performance that I am getting > > out of this system. > > > > The system's performance can't even compete with my desktop system, > > which is a Pentium III 600 Mhz with 128 MB SDRAM. This is my first > > notebook computer, before this I never owned a notebook, so I don't > > know, weather it is common for laptops to be so slow or not. > > What application(s) do you notice the slow performance in? What OS and > applications are you running on your desktop PC when doing the > comparison. > > My experience of laptops is that generally the hard disk is slow > compared to a desktop so if you do anything disk-intensive then it takes > longer.
On my laptop, activating disk DMA made a huge difference (from 2.5 MB/s to 14 :) hdparm -tT /dev/hda hdparm -d1 /dev/hda hdparm -tT /dev/hda HTH, -- Jacques L'helgoualc'h
