Daniel Holth wrote:
>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
>
>
Have you tested both with and without 32bit? My laptop performs much
better (more than 15% difference) with DMA on and 32bit off than it does
with DMA on and 32bit on.
Jeff
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