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. > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list