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Re: ThinkPad A31 Too Slow



Steve Fosdick a écrit, dimanche 13 avril 2003, à 12:57 :
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:10:30 +0300
> Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org> wrote:
> 
> > A couple of months ago I bought a ThinkPad A 31, it's one of IBM's
> > high end models, with a 1.8 Ghz Pentium4 M, and 256 MB of DDR RAM.
> > However I am not quite happy with the performance that I am getting
> > out of this system. 
> > 
> > The system's performance can't even compete with my desktop system, 
> > which is a Pentium III 600 Mhz with 128 MB SDRAM. This is my first 
> > notebook computer, before this I never owned a notebook, so I don't 
> > know, weather it is common for laptops to be so slow or not.
> 
> What application(s) do you notice the slow performance in?  What OS and
> applications are you running on your desktop PC when doing the
> comparison.
> 
> My experience of laptops is that generally the hard disk is slow
> compared to a desktop so if you do anything disk-intensive then it takes
> longer.

On my laptop, activating disk DMA  made a huge difference (from 2.5 MB/s
to 14 :)

hdparm -tT /dev/hda
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
hdparm -tT /dev/hda

HTH,
-- 
Jacques L'helgoualc'h



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