Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:10:16 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: celeron-smp slow? Message-ID: <200002090810.JAA48782@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <87pp3a$1af6$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Scott Hess <scott@avantgo.com> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> Add 'async' to the options section of /etc/fstab. Where it was probably
> just 'rw', now it would be 'rw,async'.
>
> WARNING: Async means that if the computer crashes or the power fails, you
> are much more likely to have fsck problems on reboot.
Better yet, use soft-updates, which will make your file systems
fast _and_ safe. And if you have IDE disks, be sure to enable
DMA. Without DMA, IDE drives are terribly slow. See LINT for
details and instructiosn how to enable soft-updates and DMA.
And don't overclock. It wouldn't solve your problem, but might
introduce a whole lot of new problems.
BTW, I've got a dual Celeron-466 (Gigabyte 6BXD mainboard), and
it's running great. Well, as great as a dual Celeron could
possibly run, given its small cache sizes which are not really
meant for SMP operation.
Regards
Oliver
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