On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 10:06, Lorne wrote: > Good job guys... where did you find this rpm'd kernel? Looks like I'm in the > same boat. I was nothing terrible performance and just about to start digging > when this message came across my desk. I have the Intel 845 chipset too and > can't enable DMA.
It's in cooker http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ is one location... James... > > On Sunday 29 December 2002 09:39 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > 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 > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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