Re: Slow Interactivity / hdparam Tuneup?
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Michael B Allen wrote:
> I'm running 2.4 on a T30 laptop. X gets very choppy when the disk rocks.
> When locatedb is running the machine is barely usable. Can anyone recommend
> changes that I can make that might improve the situation?
playing with hdparm options is dangerous ... read the man page
and backup your data first
after data is backed up, try
hdparm -d1 -u1 -c3 /dev/hda
( you already have dma on but ... add it anyway )
c ya
alvin
>
> [root@quark root]# hdparm /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> multcount = 16 (on)
> I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
> unmaskirq = 0 (off)
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> keepsettings = 0 (off)
> nowerr = 0 (off)
> readonly = 0 (off)
> readahead = 8 (on)
> geometry = 5168/240/63, sectors = 78140160, start = 0
> busstate = 1 (on)
> [root@quark root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
>
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