RE: better than nice -d 19
Hi !
> Hello Jochen!
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:58:35PM +1300, Jochen Daum wrote:
> >I have a backup process running on a debian woody webserver with
> >kernel 2.2.20-compact. The system is not very responsive while this
> >backup process is running. Is there any way I can improve that?
> >
> >I checked the nice value with top.
>
> Since you say you checked, I guess you mean nice -n ?
>
yes I do, was a mix-up.
> And did you enable DMA on you disks (hdparm)?
No, didn't. Thanks for this. But when I try hdparm -d /dev/hda I
always get
using_dma = off (0)
instead of enabling/disabling it as the manpage says. Does this point
to not being turned on in the bios?
Jochen
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