Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use
Egidio Corsini <egidio.corsini@fastweb.it> writes:
> 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
These are the default settings, afaik. What I (and the previous
poster, I suspect) are curious about is 'unmaskirq', I guess, or
anything else that will make the system more usable when the hard
drive is at work.
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