On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:10:28AM -0500, Yaron wrote:
>   Hey,
> 
> That whole athlon performance thing got me onto this. I've got an athlon
> system, it's usually lightning fast but sometimes it just CRAWLS to a
> standstill. Yes, when intensive disk IO is going on - unrar and uudecode
> kill my machine.
> 
> I've done the hdparm thing, but I really don't know what to look for/at.
> Anyone want to throw some HDD optimization tips out to the list? Including
> "Enable this in the kernel" etc.
> 
> For example, I've got append-"idebus=100" in lilo.conf, but I don't know
> if that actually DOES anything.

hdparm -d1 -c3 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdX

You might want to play with -X66 after reading the manual.

Or get scuzzy...

florin

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