From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 10:58:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F874292 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:58:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-zone.demon.co.uk ([158.152.227.78]) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12HtNP-000MZ7-0A for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:59:11 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:57:51 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: John Subject: Re: celeron-smp slow? References: <389DDEFD.DBB63C7B@home.com> <389DE580.AB5B37F2@3-cities.com> In-Reply-To: <389DE580.AB5B37F2@3-cities.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.00 beta 2 U Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article <389DE580.AB5B37F2@3-cities.com>, Kent Stewart writes >If you are using IDE drives, the flags option on the wdc? controller >can really affect how fast netscape loads. I went from 2-3MB/s to >14.4MB/s on a benchmark by setting my "flags 0xa0ffa0ff" on the HD's. hi just to add to that, it you set the async flag to all partitions (in /stc/fstab) apart from swap [1] the (disk i/o) speed improves tremendously. [1] I dunno if it would work on swap. I think it might be a Bad Idea (tm) but I dunno the reason... - -- John "There's no government like no government!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQA/AwUBOJ8Vry0BLCPdX3ejEQLIKACg0yhDIBeL75PTSKuqO4Xzod35OecAoP0I c+mbpFgeLaabVYpK1AIZmS8G =LFNl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message