On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:43 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 17:31, David Guntner wrote: > > I seem to remember that there's a command you can stick in your rc.local > > to turn drive DMA on. Can anyone let me know what it is? And, of > > course, if there are any pitfalls I should be aware of regarding using it > > with any of the above three drives? Thanks for any info. > > The old way was to use hdparm in an init script. I believe that all > recent distros use /etc/sysconfig/harddisks for the same purpose.
Oh man! Thanks so much for reminding me! I had forgotten about this. man did that make a HUGE difference in performance!! Now why is my samba so darned slow? Since I've been at 9.x it has really been bad. Has mandrake maybe done some "detuning" by default for stability?
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