linux seems slow

[John W]

I have noticed that during boot up "DMA disabled in bios " is listed although I have it enableed in my bios. I am not sure of the
hdparm command I will check the HOW-To on that one.


Joel Dudley wrote:

> Do you have DMA enabled with hdparm??
>
> - Joel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John W" <wisdom04@home.com>
> To: "plug" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 10:40 AM
> Subject: linux seems slow
>
> > I am running Linux Mandrake 7.1 on an AMD K62 500Mhz,Asus P5A mobo,64
> > MB,Western Digital 15.3G,Diamond stealth 2mb vid card on an S3 x server @
> > 1024x768. I am dualbooting  win98 on the first 7 gigs and linux has the
> rest
> > of the HD. I seem to have a 5-7 second delay when launching any graphical
> > application such as netscape,gimp etc. Opening a terminal window is
> > instantaneous. maybe this is normal tyhough I seem to rember hearing that
> > Linux opened apps faster than windows. I am curious if their is something
> > simple that may be causing this or if it is normal under a GUI or perhaps
> > just my dog of a vid card.
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
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