linux seems slow

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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