On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:11:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 20:11:08 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Desktop Performance Issue
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i
From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 05:34:38PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote
How did you determine the appropriate values for all of the
other settings you made besides the DMA setting? (Or, where
did you come across this information for these settings
(besides the man page obviously))?
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:17:31PM -0700, Michael wrote:
You guys hooked me up. I
I found an article at O'Reilly network that covers hdparm. After reading
it and using their suggestions I came accross this combo. When I have
time I might tweak around and see if I can dial it in more but for now
this works for me. The article is at
http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/272
Michael
Hello Alvin,
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Alvin Oga wrote:
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma= 0 (off)
Do it as root
of course
sometimes .. you have to make sure that the chips and
the drive
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 15:25, Bruce Sass wrote:
[snip]
I think it is the chips which don't do DMA.
circa 1990 hardware
Wow, that's what? A 486/20 w/ all ISA slots and a 100MB HDD???
486DX2-25, 64M RAM, all ISA(PNP), 850M + 30G HDD
running KDE3.1
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How did you determine the appropriate values for all of the
other settings you made besides the DMA setting? (Or, where
did you come across this information for these settings
(besides the man page obviously))?
lots o digging/reading or see
hi ya bruce
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Bruce Sass wrote:
bms:~# hdparm -iv /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount= 0 (off)
good and bad
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
good and bad
unmaskirq= 0 (off)
turn it on ( -u1 )
using_dma= 0 (off)
definitely turn it on ( -d 1 )
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From: Bruce Sass[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27/12/02 23:15:06
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: xio[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Desktop Performance Issue
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, xio wrote:
Frank Gevaerts wrote:
Probably not needed
hi ya
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
From: Bruce Sass[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
/sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd[abc]
Works like a treat!
# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Alvin Oga wrote:
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
From: Bruce Sass[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
/sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd[abc]
Works like a treat!
# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
hi ya bruce
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma= 0 (off)
Do it as root
of course
sometimes .. you have to make sure that the chips and
the drive supports DMA ...
- ( check the kernel
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 15:25, Bruce Sass wrote:
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Alvin Oga wrote:
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
From: Bruce Sass[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
I think it is the chips which don't do DMA.
circa 1990 hardware
Wow, that's what? A 486/20 w/ all ISA slots and a
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 05:34:38PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma= 0 (off)
Do it as root
Yes, that's what the # means
--
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I have been running Debian intermitantly since 2.2 was out. There is
nothing I would like more to standardize on this distro but there is one
issue I can not seem to get over. Hopefully one of you good people can
assist me on this.
If I run am running Debian and attempt to run multiple
Michael Evaniuck, 2002-Dec-27 09:40 -0700:
I have been running Debian intermitantly since 2.2 was out. There is
nothing I would like more to standardize on this distro but there is one
issue I can not seem to get over. Hopefully one of you good people can
assist me on this.
If I run am
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 11:55, Jeff wrote:
Michael Evaniuck, 2002-Dec-27 09:40 -0700:
I have been running Debian intermitantly since 2.2 was out. There is
nothing I would like more to standardize on this distro but there is one
issue I can not seem to get over. Hopefully one of you good
This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said:
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 11:55, Jeff wrote:
Michael Evaniuck, 2002-Dec-27 09:40 -0700:
If I run am running Debian and attempt to run multiple applications at
the same time performance degrades a lot. For example if I am playing an
MP3 on
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 12:57:05PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
He said he's using xmms, which has always done much better here than
mpg123. I'd have to guess offhand, without knowing more of his
circumstances, that the problem is likely to be DMA related. Many of
Debian's stock kernels
Frank Gevaerts wrote:
Probably not needed. Try running hdparm to enable DMA.
I agree. First thing after a Debian install I always put the following
line into /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh:
/sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd[abc]
Works like a treat!
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