[LUNI] Sloooooooow

[Keith T. Garner]

Christopher S. Susi wrote:
> Over the weekend I installed SUSE 10.2 on an IBM T30 (a P4-M 1.8GHz).  On a
> stock install of Gnome and minimal software packages, the system is
> surprisingly slow.  For instance it took several minutes to move 105 MB from
> one directory to another.  Opening Firefox took about 30 seconds.

It sounds like DMA could be turned off on that hard drive for some reason.
1998 called and it wants its 'DMA off by default' back please.

What does the following command report:
  hdparm /dev/hda

Keith

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 Keith T. Garner                                        kgarner at kgarner.com
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