[ltp] System performance

[Peter Theunis]

Adam [adam_src@fastmail.fm] wrote:
> > A dmesg output
> 
> pardon?
> 

Start a console, and type "dmesg"; copy/paste the output in your mail client.

> It says Text Editor. Under Accessories.
> 
Sooo sounds like windows :-)
You can always use "vi", very fast.

> Even on a 200Mhz desktop under Windows, notepad would come up in well
> under a second.
> 
I believe you. You might have to speed up your disk a little; can you run a "hdpram -Tt /dev/hda" and copy/paste the results ?

You'll probably have to run a "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" in order to enable DMA.

More memory would help quite a bit.

my 0.02

peter

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