Re: Disk Performance

1999-09-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:18:52AM +0100, Gordon Russell wrote: > > I am currently playing around with vmware, running win98. However, the > performance stinks (I am using a beta release though). The strange thing > is though that if I do a > find / -print > /dev/null > in another window, the perf

Re: Disk Performance

1999-09-24 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:18:52AM +0100, Gordon Russell wrote: > I am currently playing around with vmware, running win98. However, the > performance stinks (I am using a beta release though). The strange thing > is though that if I do a > find / -print > /dev/null > in another window, the perform

Re: Disk Performance

1999-09-24 Thread Hasso Tepper
Gordon Russell wrote: > I guess hdparm -c 1 -m 16 might improve things, but why does it go faster > when I use the scsi disk?? -c 1 certanly will help but I don't know about -m 16. Just try out and will see (hdparm -t /dev/hdc). Hasso

Re: Disk Performance

1999-09-24 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >I am currently playing around with vmware, running win98. However, the >performance stinks (I am using a beta release though). The strange thing >is though that if I do a >find / -print > /dev/null >in another window, the performance IMPROVES... Just gu

Disk Performance

1999-09-24 Thread Gordon Russell
I am currently playing around with vmware, running win98. However, the performance stinks (I am using a beta release though). The strange thing is though that if I do a find / -print > /dev/null in another window, the performance IMPROVES... Now I am worried that there is a bigger question here..