Hi, I've just installed RH80 on a Dell Inspiron 8200. Performance is extremely poor when working in a gnome or kde session. Starting mozilla or openoffice (or any other app that does lots of disk access on startup) takes more than one minute. When I start a failsafe session however, performance is normal. The performance problem is clearly disk related.
Disk performance test in a gnome or kde session: /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.31 seconds = 12.06 MB/sec In a failsafe session: /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.06 seconds = 20.88 MB/sec hdparm /dev/hda: /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 7296/255/63, sectors = 117210240, start = 0 Regards, Joris
