to what it is supposed to do.
Best regards,
-Manuel.
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From: Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: 05 Nov 2002 09:39:59 -0800
Subject: Re: Why are IDE drives so much slower in Linux?
> On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 07:25, Luis Hernandez-Garc
Same here, especially when dealing with video arrays.
Will Mendez
Mmmm.XSI
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> I got hooked on SCSI 5 years ago and have never looked back.
>
> Hope this helps,
> -Chuck
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A couple of things, I always try and place swap on a dedicated disk or a
disk containing rarely used filesystems. Placing swap on the same disk
as /var or any other logging locations is not a good idea. If you must
cram everything on one disk, put swap on first, which will place the
data close
thanks for your comments
please see below:
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Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:40 PM
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Subject: Re: Why are IDE drives so much slower in Linux?
On Tue, 2002
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 07:25, Luis Hernandez-Garcia wrote:
> 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)
Why would "write operations" use a lot of swap space?
If you're having problems with bad performanc
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 WIndo
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Luis Hernandez-Garcia wrote:
> have SCSI drives. The IDE machines grind almost to a halt, whereas the
> SCSI ones fly through the operations, and the Windows+IDE machines do
> just fine.
Check to see if these setting will work for you:
hdparm -d1 -c1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hd
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 WInd
