I found an article at O'Reilly network that covers hdparm. After reading it and using their suggestions I came accross this combo. When I have time I might tweak around and see if I can dial it in more but for now this works for me. The article is at http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/272
Michael On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:06:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > How did you determine the appropriate values for all of the > other settings you made besides the DMA setting? (Or, where > did you come across this information for these settings > (besides the man page obviously))? > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:17:31PM -0700, Michael wrote: > > You guys hooked me up. I entered the following hdparm command: > > > > hdparm -X34 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda > > > > Not only are problems resolved but system in general runs much quicker > > and is more responsive. Hdparm is now running at startup!! Thanks all for > > you help with this one. Wish I'd of asked a long time ago. > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:40:11 -0700, "Michael Evaniuck" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I have been running Debian intermitantly since 2.2 was out. There is > > > nothing I would like more to standardize on this distro but there is one > > > issue I can not seem to get over. Hopefully one of you good people can > > > assist me on this. > > > > > > If I run am running Debian and attempt to run multiple applications at > > > the same time performance degrades a lot. For example if I am playing an > > > MP3 on XMMS and while playing it run Mozilla the MP3 cuts out while it is > > > loading. I have noticed this happens on some other distros but to a much > > > lesser extent. On Gentoo this does not happen at all but I do not have > > > the time to spend compiling all my software. Redhat/Mandrake it happens > > > but not nearly as bad. Debian gives me the worst performance of two > > > applications. Surprisingly Windows 98/2K/XP this does not happen at all > > > and you can not tell me M$ multitasks better then Linux!! This happens in > > > either KDE, Gnome, or Windowmaker. My system is as follows: > > > > > > Duron 800mhz > > > 256MB RAM > > > NVidea TNT2 (32MB) Graphics Card > > > Ensoniq Sound Card > > > > > > BTW - I borrowed a 1.3Ghz processor and put in 512MB RAM and saw no > > > difference. > > > > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
