Do you have DMA enabled with hdparm?? - Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W" To: "plug" 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 > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss