Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

[Egidio Corsini <egidio.corsini@fastweb.it>]

Have you tryed to tune some parameters with hdparm?
Mine looks like that
/dev/hda:
 multcount    =  0 (off)
 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     = 38760/16/63, sectors = 39070080, start = 0
 busstate     =  1 (on)

And they're still not optimized, but it works well.
Try at least hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd? in order to enable dma

egidio


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