-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, I found a 2.4.20 rpm for cooker, installed it on my system, and GUESS WHAT??? Yup, that's right, DMA came on line.
Here again where my dismal speeds I was getting: [root@sneakers tbutler]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.50 seconds =256.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 22.07 seconds = 2.90 MB/sec Now here is what I am getting: [root@sneakers init.d]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.31 seconds =412.90 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.43 seconds = 44.76 MB/sec [root@sneakers init.d]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda Also, top now seems to report less than a 10% cpu time usage hit during my 97 meg file copy test. :-) :-) :-) Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions, without them I would still be scratching my head... probably moving partitions around. WOOHOO!!!!! -Tim - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Enterprise Open Source Journal: http://www.ofb.biz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+D6bhK37Cns9gJ0gRAk0XAJ9PG53j/81rSCzkI03ytEPckIJYeQCfT3aI fjCvrr665s6Lpf1d9pbgib4= =6gmm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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