Poor performance at Dell Precision M6300 with RedHat 5.3 for 64 bits
 

Hi.

Actually we buy a new laptop Dell Precision M6300 (Intel Core 2 Duo X900)with Redhat 5.3. for 64 bits, this have 8 Gb at RAM Memory and Nvidia Quadro FX 3600M with 512 Mb.

I installed too a VMware player for Windows XP and others CAE softwares, all runs ok, not perfect but runs well. but when we use at the same time 2 or more applications (including the VMware paler), the performance is poor.. the graphics performance down and inclusive the windows at the player display very slow (for example).

I don´t know if I need change a some parameters at the linux in order to inprove the linux performance.

I really appreciatte any comment.

Saludos

KMO

First things first: check if you are running a SMP enabled kernel:
# uname -a | grep SMP

Then again, whenever you use emulators and virtual machines, you kind of get crappy performance (at least that used to be the case last time I tried, about 2 years ago)

Thank you for yours comments.. I saw this ... maybe help us..

We are using SMP kernel

[root@ws62x7273 ~]# uname -a | grep SMP
Linux ws62x7273.vwm.na.vwg 2.6.9-78.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 9 15:46:26 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@ws62x7273 ~]#

Here is some cpu info

[root@ws62x7273 ~]# grep -i core /proc/cpuinfo
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9000 @ 2.80GHz
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9000 @ 2.80GHz
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
[root@ws62x7273 ~]#

[root@ws62x7273 ~]# less /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9000 @ 2.80GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx
lm pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 5590.72
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9000 @ 2.80GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx
lm pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 5584.45
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Any Idea?