Re: Desktop Performance Issue (FIXED)
I found an article at O'Reilly network that covers hdparm. After reading
it and using their suggestions I came accross this combo. When I have
time I might tweak around and see if I can dial it in more but for now
this works for me. The article is at
http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/272
Michael
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:06:45 -0500, ppp@DONTSPAMMEfreeshell.org said:
> How did you determine the appropriate values for all of the
> other settings you made besides the DMA setting? (Or, where
> did you come across this information for these settings
> (besides the man page obviously))?
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:17:31PM -0700, Michael wrote:
> > You guys hooked me up. I entered the following hdparm command:
> >
> > hdparm -X34 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda
> >
> > Not only are problems resolved but system in general runs much quicker
> > and is more responsive. Hdparm is now running at startup!! Thanks all for
> > you help with this one. Wish I'd of asked a long time ago.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:40:11 -0700, "Michael Evaniuck"
> > <michael.e@fastmail.fm> said:
> > > I have been running Debian intermitantly since 2.2 was out. There is
> > > nothing I would like more to standardize on this distro but there is one
> > > issue I can not seem to get over. Hopefully one of you good people can
> > > assist me on this.
> > >
> > > If I run am running Debian and attempt to run multiple applications at
> > > the same time performance degrades a lot. For example if I am playing an
> > > MP3 on XMMS and while playing it run Mozilla the MP3 cuts out while it is
> > > loading. I have noticed this happens on some other distros but to a much
> > > lesser extent. On Gentoo this does not happen at all but I do not have
> > > the time to spend compiling all my software. Redhat/Mandrake it happens
> > > but not nearly as bad. Debian gives me the worst performance of two
> > > applications. Surprisingly Windows 98/2K/XP this does not happen at all
> > > and you can not tell me M$ multitasks better then Linux!! This happens in
> > > either KDE, Gnome, or Windowmaker. My system is as follows:
> > >
> > > Duron 800mhz
> > > 256MB RAM
> > > NVidea TNT2 (32MB) Graphics Card
> > > Ensoniq Sound Card
> > >
> > > BTW - I borrowed a 1.3Ghz processor and put in 512MB RAM and saw no
> > > difference.
> > >
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
> > >
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