hello friends,
I've installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 on my system, whose
configuration is as under :
Pentium 200 MHz with MMX
32 MB Ram
Sis 6215C Display Adapter
Intel i430VX motherboard
10.2 GB Hard Disk (Seagate)
Creative's sound card
Windows 98
Red Hat Linux 6.2
I've got a very strange problem. It seems that my system
boots slowly into Linux, and XWindows performance is not very good.
Everything works, but at a degraded speed. Even if I browse my hard disk
using file manager, it scans the contents at a slow speed. When I start
Netscape, it takes an awful lot of time to load itself. I don't know what
wrong with my installation, since my system performance in windows good.
The speed difference between windows and Linux is great.
First I thought my swap drive space may not be optimum, so
increased that to 128 MB, but even after that there was no performance
boost. Then I read in June issue of PCQ, an article about "Fine Tuning your
Linux Machine".
I tried the following :
"/sbin/hdparm -c1 /dev/hda" for 32-bit I/O
"/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" for enabling DMA
then checked the performance using "/sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/hda".
The results were good. (The throughput increased, but not very much).
I tried to make these settings permanent : "/sbin/hdparm -k1 /dev/hda"
But when I rebooted my system, the settings were reset. Don't know why.
It's is very annoying to work on a slow system, and I do
not want to switch to windows as I like working in Linux. So please help me
increase the performance of Linux. Also, what services should be started at
boot time if I use my system as a standalone machine with networking
enabled.
Thanks in advance.
Mohit Khanna
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