>From what Im reading on the hardware sites SATA doesnt give you any performance gain unless the South Bridge is PCIe normal PCI just doesnt have the bandwidth. Using ATA66-100 hardisk would give you the same performance (with a decent cache). So if your looking for cracking speed with SATA with a south bridge thats PCI your wasting your time.

The only real thing you can do is try making swap the second partition from Zero Cylinder or use prelinking.

Only other thing that comes to mind is buy a small SCSI 320 hardisk and use that for swap and /usr.

Also run hdparm  /dev/hda  bet your still running in 16 bit mode and maybe DMA isnt enabled..


On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 13:57, Rod Butcher wrote:
Sluggers, I have 1 gig ram and 4 gig Swap on a Sata drive... performance 
when using memory-hogs like Sweep audio editor is great while it's using 
ram, but slows to a crawl once it starts using swap... not just Sweep 
but any app. Is this normal, or can I tune this in some way ? (I've 
spent my hardware budget for the next 3 years so no more  ram).
thanks
Rod
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