Unfortunately I don't have anything particular to suggest, but I did want to point out that this is not normal for Mandrake 9.1. I am running it on an ageing Toshiba laptop with a Celeron 600 Mhz processor, 192 MB ram, 4 MB video memory, 6 GB hard drive, 140 MB swap. I routinely run Gnome, Galeon, Evolution, gaim, Anjuta and a few terminals, along with Apache, postfix and imapd and don't have these performance woes. Of course I'm sure it would be a lot better on a higher spec machine, but I have no complaints with my day to day activities.
There must be something wrong in the setup or the hardware. Good luck. -- Owen On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 10:38, Dean Price wrote: > I have had this problem running Mandrake 9.1 on my home system.. I as > well tried to tweak hdparm with those setting only to no prevail. > > I run an Intel 2.2 Ghz, 1GB pc800 rambus, Turtle beach sound, ATI AIW > Radeon 8500DV, 120GB Maxtor w/2MB data burst cache. > > Networking was setup fine, > > So if anyone has any other suggestions, it would be appreciated. > > Dean Price > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:12, zzd wrote: > > On Friday September 05 2003 12:16 pm, Jim Priest wrote: > > > Installed Mandrake 9.1 last night on my box - blew away Win2000. > > >.... > > > If I can speed it up I think I could leave it on there and move to > > > Linux at home - I'm really impressed with the progress of Gnome/KDE! > > > > Have you checked to see if your hard drives support DMA? I set both DMA > > and 32bit data I/O using hdparm at the tail end of /etc/rc.local > > > > /sbin/hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/$device > > > > where $device is one of the following > > hda, hdb, hdc, hdd, hde, hdf, hdg, hdh -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
