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tendril
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 Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject: speed issues |
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Thanks to people in this forum and extensive googling I finally have a functional desktop in gentoo. Now the problem is apllication speed.
Many apps in gentoo take far longer to launch than the same app in xp. For examlpe, abiword takes a good 5 seconds under gentoo, but launches pretty much instantaneously in Windows. The same thing goes for firefox, aMSN and nicotine (soulseek client). What can I do? I'm running a 1.4 ghz thunderbird with a half gig of RAM, so things should be pretty snappy. Oh, I'm also running pure fluxbox, so no gnome or kde bloatness.
I realize that I should probably provide much more info about my system, but I really don't know what parameters are important. Can you guys help me out? |
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BlackEdder
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Is dma turned on. You can find out with (as root):
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evilben
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| You might try the new prelinking option with portage. I don't use it, but I think the whole idea is to help apps load faster, at the expense of longer compiling time. |
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tendril
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:35 am Post subject: |
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so dma wasn't turned on. I tried | Code: | | hdpard -d1 /dev/hda |
but i got a msg saying | Code: | | HDIO_SET_DMA failed: operation not permitted |
What can i do? |
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palsyboy
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:24 am Post subject: |
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I ran into the same problem, and this fixed it right up.  |
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djh-world
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| tendril wrote: | so dma wasn't turned on. I tried | Code: | | hdpard -d1 /dev/hda |
but i got a msg saying | Code: | | HDIO_SET_DMA failed: operation not permitted |
What can i do? |
You might want to enable your motherboards IDE chipset in your kernel.
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bunder
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does DMA work for SATA drives that operate via SCSI-emulation?
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BlackEdder
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I can do a hdparm -tT on my sata disk and it's a bit faster than my ald dma enabled ide disk. You can;t use hdparm to enable dma or something on the disk though. Apparently it's done by default....Supposedly there's a hdparm for scsi disks in the making
[root@edder ~ ]$ hdparm /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Operation not supported
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 19457/255/63, sectors = 160041885696, start = 0 |
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