Tim,
Looks like you've now become the resident expert on i845 chipset *grin*...congrats on the win!.... James On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 17:52, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Well, I found a 2.4.20 rpm for cooker, installed it on my system, and GUESS > WHAT??? Yup, that's right, DMA came on line. > > Here again where my dismal speeds I was getting: > > [root@sneakers tbutler]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.50 seconds =256.00 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 22.07 seconds = 2.90 MB/sec > > Now here is what I am getting: > > [root@sneakers init.d]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.31 seconds =412.90 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.43 seconds = 44.76 MB/sec > [root@sneakers init.d]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > > Also, top now seems to report less than a 10% cpu time usage hit during my > 97 meg file copy test. :-) :-) :-) > > Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions, without them I would still be > scratching my head... probably moving partitions around. WOOHOO!!!!! > > -Tim > > - -- > - ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info > Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com > Enterprise Open Source Journal: http://www.ofb.biz > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+D6bhK37Cns9gJ0gRAk0XAJ9PG53j/81rSCzkI03ytEPckIJYeQCfT3aI > fjCvrr665s6Lpf1d9pbgib4= > =6gmm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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