Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:47:37AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:46:46AM -0700, Dan Owens wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Chip Rose wrote:
> >
> > Another thing you might want to check is if your hard drive needs
> > dma turned on. What speed does "hdparm -t /dev/hda" give you?
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 18.06 seconds = 3.54 MB/sec
>
> do i need to turn dma on?
You be the judge:
# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.75 seconds =170.67 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.78 seconds = 35.96 MB/sec
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Jamin W. Collins
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