Re: Hard disk slows linux system
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Tal Eisenberg wrote:
> Hi, is it normal that hard disk activities such as cd-ripping, big file
> conversions and just plain copying take an enormous amount of my system
> resources? All these things slows the system so much that even the mouse
> isn't moving smoothly. This doesn't happen in WinXP where i can do all these
> things without slowing the system at all.
Hi,
Assuming you have got IDE disks then you want to look at hdparm. This
can switch on DMA etc. Try running hdparm /dev/hda to see what you have
to test it to
hdparm -tT /dev/hda
good starting point is
hdparm -m 16 -d 1 -c 1 /dev/hda
test again
hdparm -tT /dev/hda
HTH
Rgds
rus
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