In debian-user Thomas Kocourek wrote:
>Paul Miller writes:
>>
>> I have a 6.4 WD UDMA drive installed now, maybe I should try it out. Is
>> it worth it?
>>
>> BTW- the hdparm -t values for those IDE drives are approximately 1.05
>> megs/sec, 3.27 megs/sec, 8.51 megs/sec, respectively.
>
>Yep, th
Paul Miller writes:
[snip]
> hmm... I have 64 megs of EDO RAM and two ~104 meg swap paritions and Linux
> rarely touches them, and even if it does, it only uses less than 10 megs..
> Has Linux decided my 6-year old, 208 meg drive is too slow?
NO, Linux does not care. You have to determine if that
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Remco Blaakmeer writes:
> > > The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA"
> > > IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the
> > > standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole.
> >
> > If y
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Remco Blaakmeer writes:
> > > The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA"
> > > IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the
> > > standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole.
> >
> > If yo
Remco Blaakmeer writes:
> > The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA"
> > IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the
> > standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole.
>
> If you want to really speed up your hard drives, switch to mult
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:28:34PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
> Yes. If you put one disk on each ide channel/adapter/whatever and if
> you put swap partitions on each drive, you will get a speedup as the
> kernel is able to use both partitions concurrently (up to a point).
On the other hand, Linux
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE
> drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up
> swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.
>
> Unfortunately I think I read somewhere
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Mark Phillips writes:
> >
> >
> > I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE
> > drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up
> > swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, tko wrote:
> Mark Phillips writes:
> >
> > I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE
> > drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up
> > swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.
> >
> > What if I
Thomas Kocourek wrote:
[...]
>
> And lastly, if you are
> using EDO memory SIMMs and your motherboard supports SDRAM memory, switch over
> to SDRAM. You can get a large speed up doing this alone. My kernel
> compile times used to be ~35 minutes. When I changed from EDO to SDRAM, the
> kernel compi
Mark Phillips writes:
>
>
> I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE
> drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up
> swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.
>
> Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you
I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE
drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up
swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.
Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you have a Master/Slave
IDE pair, only on
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