Re: Desktop Performance Issue

[Alexey Chetroi <debian@twilight.telco.md>]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:11:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 20:11:08 -0800
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Desktop Performance Issue
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i
> From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
> 
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 05:34:38PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> >    ># hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
> >    >
> >    >/dev/hda:
> >    > setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> >    > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> >    > using_dma    =  0 (off)
> >    
> > Do it as root
> 
> Yes, that's what the # means....

 I'd suggest also to unmask irq (hdparm -u1 /dev/hd?) that greatly 
improves response time while you're loading heavy application such
as mozilla


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  Best regards,
  Alexey Chetroi

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