On 2003-07-17 at 10:29:22-0700 Stephen Mah <steve.mah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm testing rh9 on a Dell D600. It seems to install fine, but I'm > not impressed by the speed. It has an Intel centrino 1.4ghz mobile > pentium chip. The Toshiba 9000 with 1.ghz seems much quicker. Does > the kernel support this chipset? Make sure you've upgraded to the latest errata kernel--the kernel on the RHL9 installation CDs doesn't support the exact flavor of the D600's southbridge, which pretty much tanks all performance right there. If you're talking about raw CPU speed, there's a setting in the BIOS that can be used to run the CPU in low-power (read: "slow") mode. If you don't care about battery life, make sure that option is set to "fast" mode. Other than that, make sure you have plenty of memory in it, because having to touch the disk is a huge bottleneck, and you want to do it as infrequently as possible. -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
