Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 03:45:00 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: John <freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: celeron-smp slow? Message-ID: <00020803454401.00302@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <OoimtdAvWxn4EwyT@i-zone.demon.co.uk> References: <389DDEFD.DBB63C7B@home.com> <389DE580.AB5B37F2@3-cities.com> <OoimtdAvWxn4EwyT@i-zone.demon.co.uk>
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, John wrote: > -----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 And how does one do that? -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. If you were wondering, the answer is 42. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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