From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 1:14: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A69499F for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA48782; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:10:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:10:16 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200002090810.JAA48782@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: celeron-smp slow? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <87pp3a$1af6$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Hess wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Add 'async' to the options section of /etc/fstab. Where it was probably > just 'rw', now it would be 'rw,async'. > > WARNING: Async means that if the computer crashes or the power fails, you > are much more likely to have fsck problems on reboot. Better yet, use soft-updates, which will make your file systems fast _and_ safe. And if you have IDE disks, be sure to enable DMA. Without DMA, IDE drives are terribly slow. See LINT for details and instructiosn how to enable soft-updates and DMA. And don't overclock. It wouldn't solve your problem, but might introduce a whole lot of new problems. BTW, I've got a dual Celeron-466 (Gigabyte 6BXD mainboard), and it's running great. Well, as great as a dual Celeron could possibly run, given its small cache sizes which are not really meant for SMP operation. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message