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)