Although Dell doesn't consider the precision M50 a laptop (it's a
"portable workstation"), this list
looks like a good place to start :-)
I'm having a big problem with a brand-new M50. The symptoms persist
whether I try Redhat 7.3
or 8.0.
Generally, everything is fine, right up to the time the machine starts
paging out to disk. Then, the
system essentially grinds to a halt.
The paging activity eventually gets done, and, once things are running
in RAM, the machine flies.
However, I've seen starting mozilla take ~45 seconds, and starting vi
take 15!!!
This machine:
1.8Ghz Pentium 4 Pro Mobile CPU
256MB RAM
40 GB hard drive (userland benchmarks look good - 16-18 MB/sec
transfer rates)
nVidia Quadro 4 GoGl video
PIIX4 EIDE chipset
i810 compatible sound
Latest BIOS upgrade from Dell (A07)
I see the same result with redhat 7.3 and 8.0.
I've even disabled the PIIX support in the kernel, on the theory that
something in the IDE
subsystem was responsible - no change, except (as expected) user mode
disk IO slowed down
somewhat.
I freely admit I'm confused.
Dell support is:
1 - extremely frustrating
2 - totally useless
And I don't even want to talk about Redhat.
Can anyone point me at a theory, even??
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