From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 4:54: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4B9437B401 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 04:54:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 10353 invoked by uid 100); 30 Aug 2001 11:54:00 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15246.10584.656217.786313@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:54:00 -0500 To: "Rino Mardo" Cc: Subject: Re: Performance tuning and adding RAM In-Reply-To: <000b01c1314b$533d0260$0469a7cb@8189779819> References: <15245.52453.614096.245669@guru.mired.org> <20010830004542.A80091-100000@benny.geektank.org> <15245.62127.417241.42347@guru.mired.org> <000b01c1314b$533d0260$0469a7cb@8189779819> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Context lost to top posting.] Rino Mardo types: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > is "hdparm" any different from this disk caches you're talking about? > i noticed (with linux) in my p100 box that if i don't use hdparm the > hd system runs about 30% slower. > will using hdparm (in /etc/rc.local) make any difference? Without knowing what hdparm is or does, I can't answer that question. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message