On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:24:04 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> is this good or bad? hda2 is my swap partition: This is bad (<1/6). > /dev/hda2: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.99 seconds = 129.29 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.93 seconds = 2.92 MB/sec /dev/hda1: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.77 seconds =166.23 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.33 seconds = 19.22 MB/sec I've got a VIA 686a chipset, but using DMA here is dangerous. As I wrote in the last message, I trashed the discs several times. Kernel version 2.4.17. Maybe somebody else can tell how to improve this safely. There might also be some hopefully safe changes you could make in the BIOS. -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help .
