Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:10:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Rich Johnson wrote: > > > Judging from the lackadaisical disk LED activity, I doubt it's the disk. > > > > Disk issues can lead to apparently low disk activity in some situations, > > and it's the first thing I'd check: Make sure that DMA is on, make sure > > that hdparm is optimally tuned, etc. > > > > -- > > see shy jo > > If installation guru has to tell this, is not it time to make this as > default? Note that the mail I replied to was about an apparently quite old machine of the sort where the kernel sometimes conservatively doesn't default DMA to on. That doesn't affect modern machines, AFAIK. > We have written out 386 machines. Parse error, especially given the above. -- see shy jo
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