From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 13:14:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.isg.siue.edu (mail.isg.siue.edu [146.163.5.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C2837B401 for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:14:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vcardon@siue.edu) Received: from client156-52.ll.siue.edu (client156-52.ll.siue.edu [146.163.156.52]) by mail.isg.siue.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA17380; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:11:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from vcardon@localhost) by client156-52.ll.siue.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f7UKB9u30377; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:11:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:11:09 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardon@siue.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Rino Mardo <rmardo@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Performance tuning and adding RAM Message-ID: <20010830151109.C30158@client156-52.ll.siue.edu> 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> <15246.10584.656217.786313@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <15246.10584.656217.786313@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:54:00AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:54:00AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > [Context lost to top posting.] >=20 > Rino Mardo <rmardo@yahoo.com> 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? >=20 > Without knowing what hdparm is or does, I can't answer that question. hdparm allows the user to configure certain IDE hard-drive parameters.=20 -v --=20 Victor R. Cardona 3:08pm up 5 days, 21:39, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 (i386) 2.4.5-64GB-SMP --uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7jp3cZU/bSegbOhwRApW7AJ9uZkL/uIo1FTv2hu0VhT/Cyx+evwCeKT6o b/hI81c1U9j4DCDPBgZi1Fw= =UEd2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message