Hi Todd, I ran drakeopt on that machine, I played with hdparm, tried all sorts of stuff..
every time the speed went down, not up... eventually, I gave up and settled for what it had... and then I gave up on the whole install, I did want to work out what the prob was, but couldn't afford that box to be down this long.. So I installed nine onto it last night.. and this email is going through it and my adsl connection...so its all working now.. Its a shame really, I hate not knowning what the answer was.. hopefully mdk9.0 will prove more resilient... :-) rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:todd@;mandrakesoft.com]On Behalf Of Todd Lyons Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2002 2:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] massive resource problem with Mdk8.2 system Franki wrote on Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:59:32PM +0800 : > breada_readahead 8 0 255 rw > file_readahead 124 0 16384 rw Seems like one of these two could be higher. > io_32bit 0 0 3 rw Should be able to gain some speed here. > using_dma 1 0 1 rw Good. > nothing in this.. I never edited it. > [root@home root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/harddisks* > # USE_DMA=1 > # MULTIPLE_IO=16 > # EIDE_32BIT=3 > # LOOKAHEAD=1 The first line is redundant, but uncomment those four lines and restart the system (or manually feed them to hdparm on the commandline. Then see how it works. But we've strayed from the original problem. You have high system load. Have you been keeping up with the updates? Do you have a very difficult or root password or is it something easily guessible by someone who knows you. Have you downloaded, compiled, and run chkrootkit? http://www.chkrootkit.org. Blue skies... Todd -- ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-18mdkenterprise
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