Re: [SLUG] tuning swap

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 22:41:34 EDT


On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Daniel Holth wrote:

> My system slows to a crawl when it's doing a lot of disk access;

Sounds like you're not using DMA on your hard drive. Run "hdparm /dev/hda"
(or whatever device your hard drive is). Enable DMA with "hdparm -d 1
/dev/hda" run early in the boot. At least, that's a first guess.

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-eben    ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm    home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar

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