Paul Miller writes: [snip] > hmm... I have 64 megs of EDO RAM and two ~104 meg swap paritions and Linux > rarely touches them, and even if it does, it only uses less than 10 megs.. > Has Linux decided my 6-year old, 208 meg drive is too slow?
NO, Linux does not care. You have to determine if that drive is too slow for your usage. > > I've also had a swap parition on a 3-year old 1.2 WD drive, it's not UDMA, > but it is 310% faster than the older drive.. Linux didn't touch that > either .. I've even tried to make Linux use it by openning tons of huges X > programs (i.e. multiple Netscape windows) and it'd only use about 15 megs > at max. Try using different programs. Shared libraries make using the same program a lesson in futility (as it should be). I suggest cdda2wav + X-windows/netscape + find <something> as a better test. > > I have a 6.4 WD UDMA drive installed now, maybe I should try it out. Is > it worth it? > > BTW- the hdparm -t values for those IDE drives are approximately 1.05 > megs/sec, 3.27 megs/sec, 8.51 megs/sec, respectively. Yep, those are about right. A SCSI-1 system is around 5 Megs/sec, A SCSI-2 around 10 megs/sec, and SCSI-3 about 20 megs/sec. I believe a ultra-wide SCSI-3 tops at 40 megs/sec. Anyone knowing better than I is invited to enlighten/educate me. 8-) Try this just giggles: /usr/sbin/hdparm -c1 -X34 -m16 (or whatever the multisector factor is) /dev/hda (or whichever drive you want) The above combination should bring up your IDE performance. Check the manpage for hdparm _before_ invoking the above. 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. ....- -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
