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I have two 80 gig hard disk. I have Windows on my primary hard disk. And have just re-installed Fedora 3 on the second hard disk. I have noticed that my linux is working flow...it take a long time to enable the swap(at boot) and my application such as opening a terminal is ridiculously slow.
Is this related with the fact that i'm on the second hard disk?
Some handy commands:
# Memory and swap information
cat /proc/meminfo
free
An article: Tips for Optimizing Linux Memory
# How are the hard drives partitioned
fdisk -l
# How much free/used drive space
df -h
are you able to tell me if the problem is here. It took me 7 minutes to boot of linux,,, it stalls at the enable swap,, then when it run it take alot of time to open a simple konsole,
Please list more details about your machine, particularly the CPU. Regarding Linux being on drive 2, No, that will not have any impact on performance. -- J.W.
Maybe the drivers in Linux are not using DMA mode specifically for your chipset.
Post your motherboard information here along with the chipset it uses (NForce, Via or whatever).
Also are you getting any warnings at bootup about DMA not being enabled? If yes to this question then you should have DMA selected in the kernel configuration and the appropriate drivers for your chipset enabled and recompile the kernel Sorry for not providing a simpler solution.
Last edited by vharishankar; 03-11-2005 at 11:49 PM.
1) I reinstalled linux on my first hard disk, and I am still having this problem,
2) My mother board is an Asus p4p800- e deluxe with intel 865 p3 chipset
3) My cpu is an intel pentium 4, 3 GHz prescott HT
4)I am really having a hard time debuging my problem, but i have some interesting information which you guys might understand, when ever i deactivate my network all of the konsoles start pop-in up at the speed of light.. and all starts working fine. I start the network with Activate from the network configuration and back to the slow konsoles
If you use DHCP you don't need to edit /etc/hosts.
You use DHCP - do you actually get an IP? Activate network and check output of
# ifconfig eth0
should give you something like:
Check that "inet addr:" it should be a valid IP, if not there's a problem contacting DHCP-server. Is this a home-computer? I mean, you do have a DHCP-server on your network?
If not, you will have to set a static IP manually, and edit /etc/hosts: My computer is edgar, I call my domain zoo.se so I add the line:
192.168.30.2 edgar.zoo.se edgar
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