On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 19:51 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:40 -0500, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just recently installed FC3 RC3 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop and
> experienced _really_ wierd hard-drive performance (IDE drive). At first
> I noticed it when trying to start applications such as Evolution,
> FireFox, OpenOffice etc. but then I started testing it with hdparm -t :
>
> # hdparm -t /dev/hda
don't use hdparm!
it's very unreliable for measuring performance; please use something
like tiobench (
tiobench.sf.net)
Arjan,
Event though I agree that hdparm -t is not the correct tool to test hard
drive performance, your missing my point. My original problem was that
Applications such as Evolution, Firefox, OpenOffice, disk access in
general was _really_ slow. Turning off the HAL daemon fixed that.
Regards,
Steffen