Re: Desktop Performance Issue

[Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 12:57:05PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 
> He said he's using xmms, which has always done much better here than
> mpg123.  I'd have to guess offhand, without knowing more of his
> circumstances, that the problem is likely to be DMA related.  Many of
> Debian's stock kernels don't seem to turn on DMA by default, and this
> can easily make an otherwise wuick box feel sluggish.  Try compiling
> your own kernel with DMA turned on and see how you do.

Probably not needed. Try running hdparm to enable DMA.

Frank

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