Optimizing Fedora Core 3 5223
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, JesusFreak
OK, here are a couple of things to check.
Run "top". Is cpu usage (user + system + nice) often 100%? If so, consider getting a faster processor. (If you're running a "distributed computing" program like Gimps, stop it first.)
Is a task with "swap" in its name requiring a lot of time? If so, add memory.
Do "hdparmdev-hda". Here are my results:
dev-hda: multcount = 16 (on) IOsupport = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) usingdma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 16383-255-63, sectors = 40020664320, start = 0
Note that multiple sector I-O is set at 16 sectors, 32-bit I-O support is on and usingdma is on.
Run "hdparm -Tt" to test the drives. Here are my results for comparison:
dev-hda: Timing cached reads: 1452 MB in 2.00 seconds = 724.51 MB-sec Timing buffered disk reads: 124 MB in 3.00 seconds = 41.33 MB-sec
Run "prelink -avR". I think that Fedora 3 does this by default.
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