I have a Toshiba P25 laptop. P4 3.0GHz HT Processor, 512 MB RAM, 60GB Hard
Drive with Gentoo successfully running on it, but it seems extremely slow,
and seems to have an excessive ammount of hard drive activity for each
program I start, and gets a lot worse with each program I start, although I
don't feel I run enough programs simultaneously to slow it down this much.
Sometimes takes upwards of 20-30 seconds just to start KCalc. My hdparm
settings stay successfully set as follows:
/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 3 (32-bit w/sync)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 7296/255/63, sectors = 117210240, start = 0
Output of free:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 513708 507052 6656 0 11716 249132
-/+ buffers/cache: 246204 267504
Swap: 1004052 40184 963868
I've searched for several days, but being a total newbie I'm not even sure
what to search or look for, although I've tried. What other things might I
search for and check to improve performance? Could it be a memory management
issue? I have my swap set to 1024MB. This is a fast laptop and Knoppix runs
very fast and smooth on it, I think Gentoo should too but I probably missed
something.
I love Linux and what it stands for and I am very willing to go through the
learning curve to make the switch. However, with programs loading this slowly
it's just not productive enough to use for my business, but I DON'T want to
have to go back to... well... that other crappy, bloated, restrictive OS.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Regards,
Sterling
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