michael wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 17:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:Could it be that your disk(s) aren't running in DMA mode?how does DMA help? should this be on for all machines (eg mine!)? thanks,
DMA stands for direct memory access. It allows capable drives and controllers to access memory while bypassing the CPU. This means that since the CPU is not required to arbitrate every transfer to and from memory: a) they complete much faster, and b) your overall CPU load is significantly less. -Roberto -- Roberto Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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