> I guess that my emails are *really* long-winded.  If you read the whole
> thing, you would have found out what my experience was with hdparm.  I
> mentioned this experience in an older message on the same topic earlier
this
> morning.  The benchmarking options (-Tt) yielded the same results as the
> first (before -c3d1).  So (unfortunately), hdparm doesn't help me here.
But
> thanks anyway.

Oops sorry, I just read the reply from this one message and went by the
line:
    I don't know what to do armed with this but...

It made enough sense all by itself that I figured that I didn't need to read
the part it was replying to :)

Brian Cluff

> On Saturday 17 February 2001 22:17, you wrote:
> > Rick Rosinski wrote:
> > > My CPU is an AMD K6-III 400Mhz.  I just want to get the best out of
Linux
> > > (plus I like to tinker with it).  I am using Slackware 7.1 (but I
updated
> > > many of the basic utilities and upgraded the kernel to 2.4.1).  I
haven't
> > > changed anything related to the disk cache and mem buffer (because I
> > > don't know how to).  I am afraid of messing with RAM disks only
because I
> > > tend to forget to copy things back to disk to save important info (but
of
> > > course, I can implement shut-down or crontab scripts that will do that
> > > for me).  I use my system for web administration, with apache, perl
and
> > > mysql. I also work with large 600 bpi photo images with the gimp.  I
do
> > > lots of work with sound files, especially encoding wav's to mp3's.
Is
> > > there a way to decrease the amount of caching that the system does?
I
> > > also tried hdparm -c3d1 and found that my system defaults to 32-bit &
dma
> > > mode because there was no difference in the benchmark tests (using
hdparm
> > > -Tt on the drive before and after the -c3d1 switch).  Any more
> > > suggestions?
> >
> > Hi,
> > I found this command called hdparm that looks at your hard disk. I found
> > that my drive had buffering off and Direct Memory Access(DMA) turned
> > off. I don't know what to do armed with this but ...
> >
> > You could also look at www.linuxdoc.org. They have a section
> > HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html that tells how to optimize if you have more
> > than disk.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Eric:-)
> >
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