Okay, being an old skeptic and a young Linux mechanic
what's the "downside" of such a tweak??
Will I have data errors (read/write) corrupted files,
and such??
Why is the "default" set so low??
Vern
Larry Varney wrote:
>
> Mine was similar, until I did the "hdparm -d1 hda", and the result jumped up into
>the 13 MB/sec range. Changing the umask didn't seem to make any difference, though.
>
> Larry Varney
> Cold Spring, KY
> http://w3.one.net/~lvarney
>
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> On 4/24/00 at 11:50 PM vern wrote:
>
> >Here's what my "hunk O junk" does pretty crummy by your
> >standards!!
> >Vern
> >PS. Looks like I'm due for a tuneup!
> >
> >/dev/hda:
> > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.62 seconds = 2.96 MB/sec
> >
> >
> >Albert wrote:
> >>
> >> Depending on the motherboard / chipset
> >>
> >> hdparm -d1 /dev/hda is the common flag
> >>
> >> Here is a snip from this machine
> >>
> >> /dev/hdb:
> >> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.68 seconds =76.19 MB/sec
> >> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.29 seconds =19.45 MB/sec
> >>
