At 07:09 PM 8/26/99 -0400, Steve Philp wrote:
>Jason Bodnar wrote:
>>
>> I recently upgraded my box to AMD K6-2 350 with 128MB PC-100 SDRAM on an
ASUS
>> P5A motherboard. Before that it had a Cyrix P150 with 64 MB EDO and a
Shuttle
>> motherboard.
>>
>> I reinstalled Mandrake 6.0 with the latest from one of the mirrors. I've
>> installed any updates that have come out using MandrakeUpdate.
>>
>> When I start an application there is a considerable delay before the
>> application actually begins. This happens both in X and from the
console. For
>> example, I was using gnumeric the other day and it took close to a minute
>> before the window was displayed. But I don't think this is related to a
>> specific set of applications because I've noticed delays running emacs
>from the
>> console and running man even takes about 15 seconds before it displays the
>page.
>
>Check to see if there's anything mentioned in the system logs about a
>problem.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
>Next, check to see if hard drive speed seems reasonable with something
>like 'hdparm -tT /dev/hda' (or whatever drive you're using for Linux).
I think we've found the culprit.
buffer-cache reads: 57.40 MB/sec
buffered disk reads: .31 MB/sec !!!!
Would this be indicative of a bad drive or would this be a software
problem? The drive is brand new. It's a seagate 8.4 MB medalist.
>Finally, check 'dmesg' to see if the hardware is correctly setup and
>detected. Bogomips should be somewhere around 700, I'd imagine.
699 something so that looks good.
Thanks for your help. Hopefully, I just need a new drive. (Which won't be
that bad since this is a reasonably new installation.)
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>Steve Philp
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