Thank you Realto,
your cordiality is always welcome, I wished it was a bit more helpful,
though... Since I started the discussion, and was asking for help from smart
people like you, I would have expected to receive a bit of support, rather
than stating the obvious... so any suggestions or experiences for the odd
behaviour of slackware 10.0 (or any other distro, for that matter) on the
above machine type??

Bill - that is a good suggestion. I did try the hdparm and switched on and
off the dma option... saw the changes in performance (slowed down from
19mb/sec to 3mb/sec transfer rates) but did not improve the total
situation... maybe there is a trick?
Will try to see if there is anything specific between Fedora and the files
of slack... I still have disk 3 (ready system) Thanx again!

I will post an update of test.

To repeat the issue:
PIII 600, 384MB RAM, I810 (I82810) board, 30MB HDD
The system pauses for 5 second (aprox) after launching and before processing
an application (like less, man etc.)

Cordially and with regards,
Vladimir


Realto Margarino <boogie@eewwww.org> wrote in message
news:lIsVc.36337$Tr.1704227@news20.bellglobal.com. ..
> Marcus Moeller <m.moeller@wrede-online.de> wrote:
> > Bill Taggart wrote:
>
> > > Hmm, it just doesn't make sense. I like redhat, we use it at
> > > work, but switched back to slack after the newer versions of RH
> > > were giving me terrible performance. I run slack on a Pii 300
> > > and PIII T40 IBM laptop and it runs great. One time I had a
> > > weird issue with X - ran better on RH than slack. I installed
> > > both OSe's side by side on the same machine and was able to
> > > mount the root disk as a regular partition so I could compare
> > > set up and config files. If you have the time that might be the
> > > way to go. Just a guess but made its has something to ATA
> > > drive?? Do you look at the hdparm settings?
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I?ve tested a lot of disrtos in the past, but I really find slack
> > the fastest. It takes about 30 Seconds to boot the bare.i kernel,
> > and even KDE starts very fast.
>
> There is _no_ difference in speed between the various
> distributions, unless those distributions are setup in different
> ways. But if you know anything at all about linux you will have it
> setup the way you want and you will find no difference.
>
> cordially, as always,
>
> rm

chino <chino2008@tradutesis.com> wrote,

Falseto Butterino the "cordially as always" troll wrote:

Who the fuck cares what a troll says? Keep answering the
motherfucker and you will end up killfiled along with him.

Free Clue: The reason nobody replies to Falseto Butterino
the "cordially as always" troll is because everybody has
killfiled the little asswipe.

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> Thank you Realto,
<SNIP>
> Cordially and with regards,
> Vladimir
>
>
> Realto Margarino <boogie@eewwww.org> wrote in message
>><snip>
>> cordially, as always,
>>
>> rm

Please,

Trim you posts:
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html
And don't Top post:
http://asciipr0n.com/fp/linux/top-posting.txt
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/brox.html
http://caliburn.nl/topposting.html

Thank you.

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or develop a morbid fear of the 'rm' commmand!
From: Andy McDowell -- Slackware Mod Quote - Vol. V

On 2004-08-20, Vladimir <vladimir.martinov_NOSPAM_@lemeridien-hotels.com> wrote:
> To repeat the issue:
> PIII 600, 384MB RAM, I810 (I82810) board, 30MB HDD
> The system pauses for 5 second (aprox) after launching and before processing
> an application (like less, man etc.)
>
> Cordially and with regards,
> Vladimir

Vladimir,

I had a similar problem once when there was some problem with name
resolution on my machine. For some reason, some programs (are you
using tcsh by any chance?) want to lookup `hostname` when they start
and if there is something wrong in your /etc/hosts or /etc/resolv.conf
or your /etc/nsswitch.conf, things will hang while the name lookup is
timing out.

Make sure your hostname is in /etc/hosts, and make sure the hosts:
line in /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like

hosts: files dns

and see if the problem persists.

Jim

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:53:53 GMT,
vladimir.martinov_NOSPAM_@lemeridien-hotels.com wrote:

[...]

> To repeat the issue:
> PIII 600, 384MB RAM, I810 (I82810) board, 30MB HDD
> The system pauses for 5 second (aprox) after launching and before processing
> an application (like less, man etc.)

I had these symptoms: while booting, the hard disk paused several
times with this error message in the syslog:

hda: dma timeout error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }

If I change the DMA setting (from command line with ``hdparm'', for
example), then the problem disappears. The cure was to recompile
the kernel and to change these options in .config:

,---[ diff .config ]---
| < # CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE is not set
| ---
| > CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
| 470,471c470
| < CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
| < # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
| ---
| > # CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO is not set
| 514c513
| < CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
| ---
| > # CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is not set
`---[ ]---


Best regards,

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Aahz's law: The best way to get information on usenet is
not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.

DIG wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:53:53 GMT,
> vladimir.martinov_NOSPAM_@lemeridien-hotels.com wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> To repeat the issue:
>> PIII 600, 384MB RAM, I810 (I82810) board, 30MB HDD
>> The system pauses for 5 second (aprox) after launching and before
>> processing an application (like less, man etc.)
>
> I had these symptoms: while booting, the hard disk paused several
> times with this error message in the syslog:
>
> hda: dma timeout error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
>
> If I change the DMA setting (from command line with ``hdparm'', for
> example), then the problem disappears. The cure was to recompile
> the kernel and to change these options in .config:
>
> ,---[ diff .config ]---
> | < # CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE is not set
> | ---
> | > CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
> | 470,471c470
> | < CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
> | < # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
> | ---
> | > # CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO is not set
> | 514c513
> | < CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
> | ---
> | > # CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is not set

These errors are a bit wayward. Various people try various things to get,
and get, a solution. Here is my post to smarttools people.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...forum_id=12495

Nick

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:10:32 -0000 (GMT), "Anonymous"
<anonymous@anonymous.invalid> wrote:

>
>chino <chino2008@tradutesis.com> wrote,
>
>Falseto Butterino the "cordially as always" troll wrote:
>
>Who the fuck cares what a troll says? Keep answering the
>motherfucker and you will end up killfiled along with him.
>
>Free Clue: The reason nobody replies to Falseto Butterino
>the "cordially as always" troll is because everybody has
>killfiled the little asswipe.
and who the fuck cares what you say ASSHOLE SELF RIGHTOUS BASTARD

tell the dude that he got his answer from atroll and be friendly about
it without chewing his head off you linux GURU DIPSHIT PRICKHEAD

now how does that feel you piece of human vile

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