Yes, I'm especially interested in Civileme's tool he's
working on to install a Maxtor controller card. I
wonder if I should get that for RAID 0 instead of the
3ware. 3ware has good support, but only goes up to
ATA 66.
How important is ATA 100 anyway for RAID 0??? Should
I even be concerned about that. I'm think that
because I have 2 ATA 100 HDs (IBMs), that it would be
a waste to get the 66 controller. Am I just being
foolish? Is the 66 fine?
--- Terry C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please let us know as soon as you have the disk
> optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to
> test
> it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard
> drive and I'm not getting the performance I should
> from it yet.
>
> TC
>
> --- Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 21 May 2001 08:01, Irv wrote:
> > > From: Pelle Poluha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with
> Mandrake
> > 8
> > >
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > I'm working as a developer and needs a stable
> > environment to develop and
> > > > test deployments in. So I want to switch from
> > Windows. I need stability
> > >
> > > but
> > >
> > > > at the same time I want speed and a practical
> UI
> > (read GUI). I need a
> > >
> > > smooth
> > >
> > > > file manager, easy access to OS, an editor,
> > browser, email client (the
> > > > usual I guess) and a C++ & Java IDE.
> > >
> > > That you'll have - but not with KDE 2, I'm
> > afraid.
> > > Even people with 1ghz / 256 mb machines have
> > reported slowness.
> > > My 300mhz / 128 meg pc is too slow to be usable,
> > but not quite as
> > > slow as you report - usually KDE takes 30-40
> > seconds, and new apps
> > > or windows 10 - 20 seconds.
> > >
> > > The good news is that KDE 1.x works just fine.
> Try
> > an older version of
> > > Mandrake or SuSE or RedHat. They're all plenty
> > fast.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Irv
> > >
> > > > I opted for Mandrake because I've heard a lot
> of
> > good things about it. So
> > >
> > > I
> > >
> > > > downloaded 8.0 last week and eagerly installed
> > it on my AMD K333 machine
> > >
> > > (96
> > >
> > > > mb, Riva TNT) on a 2 gig partition. As I've
> > followed the development of
> > >
> > > KDE
> > >
> > > > with great interest, I chose KDE as default
> > windows manager (and it has
> > > > KDevelop).
> > > >
> > > > But it's really slow. Just loading Mandrake
> > takes like 3-4 minutes. Some
> > >
> > > of
> > >
> > > > it, I can understand. In the installation
> > process, I included lots of
> > > > apps and some of them gets loaded when
> Mandrake
> > starts (like MySql and
> > >
> > > postgres,
> > >
> > > > probably some more servers). But that surely
> > doesn't account for the
> > > > immensly slow loading of the OS.
> > > >
> > > > And then I start KDE... It takes another 2-3
> > minutes. And using it is
> > >
> > > awful.
> > >
> > > > Loading a simple app might take 10-20 secs and
> > everything just crawls. I
> > > > just can't use it. I tried Window Maker
> instead
> > and it worked better. But
> > >
> > > I
> > >
> > > > don't want to drop KDE just yet. There must be
> > something wrong with the
> > > > configuration. I also tried Gnome but it
> started
> > to look for a trash
> > >
> > > folder
> > >
> > > > which it didn't find. Although I canceled that
> > search, it seemed like it
> > > > continued to search for the folder because the
> > hd were working really
> > > > hard all the time and everything worked even
> > slower than in KDE.
> > > >
> > > > There are also some more strange things
> > happening:
> > > > - when I leave the windows manager and come to
> > the 'console', I get a
> > > > line typed on the screen all the time:
> "Sending
> > ICMP signal...failed" (or
> > > > something like that). It effectively stops me
> > from working in console
> > >
> > > mode.
> > >
> > > > - it seems like I've lost my internet
> > connection. During installation, I
> > > > selected 'DHCP-server' when asked for IP
> > address. And I managed to do
> > > > some surfing using Konqueror. But after
> > installing Gnome and Window
> > > > Maker, something must have happened to the
> > configuration.
> > > > - shutting down or restaring the OS always
> hangs
> > the machine.
> > > > - when I start Windows instead, using the boot
> > manager, the initial
> > >
> > > loading
> > >
> > > > process seems to be slower now than before.
> It's
> > not a big deal because
> > > > it works fine when Windows is loaded but it
> > might give a clue to why the
> > >
> > > system
> > >
> > > > is so slow when I start Linux.
> > > >
> > > > Please advice!
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Pelle Poluha
> > > > Sweden
> >
> > Grrrr!
> >
> > The speed you perceive will be related to the
> > performance of your HDDs more
> > than any other single factor. I am doing fine
> with
> > a Celeron 366 and a
> > well-tuned disk drive which turns up a read rate
> of
> > 31.89Mb/s
> >
> > I should have a disk optimizer out next week for
> > testing. It will probably
> > make a world of difference.
> >
> > Civileme
> >
> >
>
>
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