On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:42:45PM -0700, Craig Cruden wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:42:37 -0400 > From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: FC4 -- really slow > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases > <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <20050415184237.GA12281@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:30:58AM -0700, Craig Cruden > wrote: > >> 250 G hard drive (disconnected the other 3 drives > >> since I could not figure out which one was the > >> bootable one otherwise). > >> NVidia GeForce 3 > >> > >> Any ideas -- why this thing is sooooooooooo slow. > > > >If you boot with mem=1024M is it suddenely much > faster ? > > Yes, it boots much faster -- what does this mean > (other than I have a lot of useless memory :P ) What does your /proc/mtrr look like ? Dave