On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:25:01AM -0500, Luis Hernandez-Garcia wrote: > > Hi, > > We've noticed in our lab that the machines that have IDE hard disks run > their write operations(ie- things that use a lot of swap space) much more > slowly than when we execute the same sort of operations in WIndows machines
Depending on what distribution you're using, performance optimization is turned on or off by default. Look at what hdparm has to say about your disk and see if you can make it go faster. This page explains it better than I ever could: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html Emmanuel -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
