Re: [SLUG] tuning swap

From: Daniel Holth (dholth@fastmail.fm)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 22:54:38 EDT


On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 22:41, Eben King wrote:
> 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.

Nope, I'm definitely using DMA, multcount is 16, 32 bit, all that good
stuff.

By the way, I've got Neverwinter Nights for Linux and it's quite good,
though I had to install the 1.30 patch in order for fonts to appear on
my main menu. Anyone play Marble Blast?

- Daniel Holth



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