From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 0:45:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A9644194 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:45:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [208.219.234.56] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ya457858 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 03:44:47 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA00335; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 03:45:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: John , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: celeron-smp slow? Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 03:45:00 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <389DDEFD.DBB63C7B@home.com> <389DE580.AB5B37F2@3-cities.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00020803454401.00302@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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