Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:57:51 +0000 From: John <freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: celeron-smp slow? Message-ID: <OoimtdAvWxn4EwyT@i-zone.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <389DE580.AB5B37F2@3-cities.com> References: <389DDEFD.DBB63C7B@home.com> <389DE580.AB5B37F2@3-cities.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article <389DE580.AB5B37F2@3-cities.com>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> 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
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