Installing Severn on a Sony 505VE laptop - broken?

[Stephan Schutter]

I have noticed a problem with performance. Linux used to have a reputation 
for performance; I can see this clearly in services like DHCP, DNS, and 
untill recently apache (Win2003 IIS is faster). But on the desktop I have 
experienced the oposite:

RHL + DDE or Gnome as a desktotp:

1. Bootup time: 	Windows 98, ME and XP boot up in almost half the 
time. Timings are more or less the same with Win2000. 

2. RAM usage: 		RHL has the same if not higher Requirements. 

Example:

on a dell Lattitude, RAM:128, CPU:333MHZ, Disk:10GIG;
RHL is usable but verry slow (even after running hdparm). The end 
user experience is not very good; Win98, ME, are lightning fast by 
contrast on the same system. WinXP is slightly faster than RHL on this 
system (even with all the GUI effects on). 

Performance impressions are gagued on Bootup time, Login time, app startup 
time, screen feedback (menu snappiness). 

This really removes the incentive for a corporate move to RHL on desktop 
systems since there is a lot of hardware out there with the above 
specifications. 

So the question follows, ofcource: hos do you report this type of 
information and is any one at RH working on performance? 

./SLS 




On 7 Sep 2003, Alan wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 09:29, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 02:34:29PM -0700, Alan wrote:
> >  > I am trying to get Severn installed on a Sony 505ve laptop.  I have
> >  > installed a number of other versions on it with no problem.
> >  > 
> >  > "linux ide1=0x180" does not work either. (Which used to be the fix for
> >  > this problem on older installs.)
> > 
> > On my z600 (which is just a European version of the 505)
> > I had to pass..
> > ide1=0x180,0x386 pci=off
> > 
> > It then worked just fine..
> 
> That did the trick.  I had tried everything except the "pci=off".  It is
> installing now.  (Fairly slowly, but installing.  I need a new
> laptop...)
> 
> 
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