I am running Mandrake 8.0 on my Toshiba Satellite 2805-S402 (one of the
nice shiny ones with the GeForce2Go). The performance is great except
for one aspect. The hard drive performance under Linux seems to be much
worse than under Win2K. I ran hdparm -t shortly before I did a
reinstall hoping I might spot an elusive option that might help. In the
process of the reinstall, I seem to have missed the package with hdparm
in it, so I can't be sure, but I'm not seeing any performance (it takes
less time for my old PII 233 Satellite 4000 to load up Mozilla). Once
things are loaded into memory, performance is great, but it takes almost
10 seconds for a terminal window to pop up the first time, but only
about 1 second for a second one.
What can I do to boost hard disk performance. I've got /, /usr/local,
and /home set up as ReiserFS partitions, and /boot as ext2 (that little
trick let me upgrade my kernel in 7.1 without the ReiserFS filesystem
work-around, so I kept with it).
I can't verify it until I find the rpm which contains hdparm, but I
think I remember the result of hdparm -t was 2.6 or 6.2 Mb/sec.
Obviously, either of those is FAR slower than it should be.
- Theo
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