The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop useable under heavy disk usage.These are my hdparm settings:
[snip] Thanks for your suggestions. As i have an SATA harddisk, can i use hdparm with it , i thought it could only be used with PATA devices and for SATA there is sdparm. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
