On Tuesday 22 May 2001 13:31, Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, you wrote:
> > Please let us know as soon as you have the disk
> > optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test
> > it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard
> > drive and I'm not getting the performance I should
> > from it yet.
> >
> > TC
>
> I wonder if the new kernel is slowing down disk operations?
> Or something else?
>
> How can we benchmark our disk performance with Mandrake
> 7.1 and again with 8.0 to see if there is a difference?
>
> Regards,
> Irv
Well, we had to take out the tuning parameters or else some rigs would have
simply sat there--frozen on install. Too many trashy drives and buggy
interfaces around. This is to replace what we removed with a huge database
of drives and a lot more intelligence than could be built into the kernel.
Civileme
