Hmmmm Somebody told me that all the packages besides the kernel are compiled for the 386, not the 686, and this might have a significant impact. However, when I ran with Slackware, I think all their binary packages are compiled for the 386 as well, and I didn't notice the slowness.
I've gone into my BIOS and knocked down the memory for the AGP aperture from 128MG to 64MB. (I don't even know what an AGP is. Could somebody please enlighten me?). I also found out that I only have 256MB of RAM, not 512M, like I had originally thought. However, this seem to make a difference with my previous system. Is there some setting somewhere for bus bandwith or something? I noticed this IDE is running with a "default" of 16. Should it be 32? I gather there is no way to tuning the SCSI? What about processor speed? As far as the BIOS is concerned, I'm running "Normal" not "Compatible". It could just be that RH 8.0 and all the new stuff is just a slower dog on the same machines, err like Windoze is. Thanks, -Polar On 4 Mar 2003, Joe Polk wrote: > Polar, > Given your results below, I decided to test my own. I'm finding much > poorer results (So, count your blessings). My laptop results are: > > # ./hdparm -acd /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > using_dma = 1 (on) > readahead = 8 (on) > > # ./hdparm -t /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.00 seconds = 12.79 MB/sec > > My server, rather old dual PII with SCSI disks: > > # hdparm -t /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.33 seconds = 10.11 MB/sec > > This is disappointing to say the least, but how can one improve these > speeds? Anyone? > > <<JAV>> > > > > /dev/md0: > > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.58 seconds = 40.50 MB/sec > > /dev/hdd: > > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.94 seconds = 21.74 MB/sec > > > > > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
