On Saturday 07 June 2003 08:55, Joe Stroller wrote: > I have recently gotten Gentoo installed on a Sony Vaio PCG-C1XD; I am using > Gentoo sources (linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5) but it seems quite slow. > > Now I know it's only a little Pentium II, but I haven't even installed KDE, > yet! It has 64meg RAM and 750meg of the 12 gig drive is swap. I arranged > this swap as hda2, right after my /boot partition, as I believe this allows > faster access. (?) > > hdparm says: > > omf root # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 6.86 seconds = 18.66 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.36 seconds = 10.07 MB/sec > Hmm.. [dodgy] results: probably not enough free memory for a proper test. > omf root # /etc/init.d/hdparm start > * Starting hdparm... > * Running hdparm on disc0... [ ok ] > omf root # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
laptop-harddisks are slow, so this result is not suprising low. Putting swap to the beginning of the harddisk, is a good thing, but it can not cure slow hardware ;o) Glück Auf, Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
