I'm also new to the list...
RE performance... I was running RH9.0 and DMA wouldn't work on my Inspiron
8500 2.2 gig laptop w/o tweaking (finding the right module for my controller
and compiling it). This made it DOG slow, it was night and day afterwards..
FWIW, I am now on RHEL WS3.0 and the controller was recognized right away. 


Regards,

Chris Smith
API Information Systems Group
www.apitools.net



-----Original Message-----
From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Clay Fandre
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:57 PM
To: 'TCLUG Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] New to list with a question

The first thing you should do is configure hdparm. I'm not sure if RH9
configures it or not, but if it doesn't, it helps a lot.

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Michael wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to the TCLUG list.  I'm a M$ Network admin, who's wanting to 
> expand my knowledge back into the *nix world.  I've worked with AIX, IRIX
and
> FreeBSD in the past, but only breifly.   So now I going to dive into the
> Linux world.  Since I'm doing this to expand my business knowledge as 
> well as personal, I've decided to use Red Hat 9. (no flames plz)
> 
> I have a Dell C600 Latitude laptop, PIII 750 - 256MB RAM and 40 GB 
> HDD, that I'm dedicating to running linux. Back when I played with 
> FreeBSD for awhile, I looked at both GNOME and KDE as desktop 
> environments with KDE becoming my personal preference.
> 
> With just the default installs from RH with updates, KDE seems a bit 
> sluggish.  I know recompiling the kernel will be a good idea, especially
> current code since RH is behind.   But, I'm looking for any other
> suggestions as to increase performance or what kind of performance I 
> should expect out of a PIII 750.
> 

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