On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:10:28AM -0500, Yaron wrote: > Hey, > > That whole athlon performance thing got me onto this. I've got an athlon > system, it's usually lightning fast but sometimes it just CRAWLS to a > standstill. Yes, when intensive disk IO is going on - unrar and uudecode > kill my machine. > > I've done the hdparm thing, but I really don't know what to look for/at. > Anyone want to throw some HDD optimization tips out to the list? Including > "Enable this in the kernel" etc. > > For example, I've got append-"idebus=100" in lilo.conf, but I don't know > if that actually DOES anything. hdparm -d1 -c3 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdX You might want to play with -X66 after reading the manual. Or get scuzzy... florin -- "If it's not broken, is because you are not fixing it enough." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4