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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Terrible performance... Please help!
From:       Dan Stone <dan () headzofstate ! com>
Date:       2002-11-07 17:13:47
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On Thursday 07 November 2002 08:57 am, Pontus Edvardsson wrote:
> Hi,
> Kind of strange with this kind of performance drops on a distro that should
> be "ultra optimized"...?? Isn't rc1 fully optimzed yet? In many cases, my
> old Debian install felt much quicker. And ofcourse I'm not just referring
> to Tuxracer and mplayer... Everything is slow...
>
> If nothing else could be done, I'll revert to Debian and will check out
> FreeBSD on the side. Heard some other good "roumours" about it! :)
>
> Thanks for the tip!
>
> Pontus

Well, if everything across the board seems to be suffering in performance, 
I'll suggest the obvious one, since it hasn't been suggested yet: are your 
hard drives running in the appropriate UDMA mode and all that?  What sort of 
numbers do you get from running:
/sbin/hdparm -Tt (your hard drive device here)

If they're fairly low, you may just need to get your hard drives up to speed 
with hdparn =)

~D. A. Stone

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