On Monday 28 February 2005 19:18, Justin Patrin wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:01:23 -0800, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Justin Patrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hdparm /dev/hda (change as needed) > > > > and you can check speed using > > > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > If you have DMA enabled then the speed should be 10's of MB and low > > CPU. If not then <5MB and lots of CPU. > > Already knew about that. It's set to the highest setting already. As I > said, it used to work much better but it's been getting slower and > slower lately. * Have a tail -f running on your syslog to see if accesses generate hard- or software errors. * Look in your boot messages if your filesystem mentions something about fragmentation (but, not all FS types do). Ext2 says something like "xx/yyy files (z.z% non-contiguous)" but I have no info about others. * If you really think fragmentation is the culprit, you could copy all the files to a new disk (and back, if so desired). This will deal with any and all fragmentation. Maarten -- bash-2.05b$ emerge ncy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
