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Re: a question on performance



also sprach Derek Gladding <derek_gladding@altavista.net> [2002.07.19.0158 +0200]:
> (1) VESA driver is painfully slow - it works, but does everything in 
> software, gobbling up huge chunks of CPU. It's probably worth grabbing 
> the 4.2 debs to get Radeon support (that's what I'm using now, and 
> works fine for me).

Wow, that really made a difference. I could have figured...

> (2) Have you tried playing with the hdparm '-u' flag to turn off 
> interrupt masking during IDE accesses ?

I must correct my last message to you... i call

  /sbin/hdparm -d1 -c1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hda

in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

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