Hi, We've noticed in our lab that the machines that have IDE hard disks run their write operations(ie- things that use a lot of swap space) much more slowly than when we execute the same sort of operations in WIndows machines (Matlab, for example), and orders of magnitude slower than the machines that have SCSI drives. The IDE machines grind almost to a halt, whereas the SCSI ones fly through the operations, and the Windows+IDE machines do just fine.
I know that SCSI is inherently faster than IDE and the Linux/Unix have been developed with SCSI in mind. But, isn't there a way to optimize the system so that it uses the IDE drives more efficiently? Any hints? I, and everyone around me would sure appreciate them. -Luis -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
