adhd-dude
10-23-2002, 12:35 AM
Ok so i obsessed over my harddrive not running at ATA100 and i went and bought another ATA100 IDE cable with no luck.
Even though my bios reports ATA100 hdparm's tests report hillarious speeds. Heres a quick show:
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.83 seconds =178.22 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.41 seconds = 45.39 MB/sec
My big problem there is the first line witht he Timing buffer-cache.
As of today i have no resolution and my speed is as it shows.
I have found the "ultimate" hdparm line that will for sure show _YOU_ nice repsonse times:
hdparm -c3 -m16 -d1 -X69 -u1 -A1 -a1 /dev/hda
This line seems to work very nicely for me and it might not for you so please be careful.
Do a man hdparm PLEASE and find out what those commands mean before you jump on it.
You can put that line in your local startup file.
for Mandrake just throw it in the bottom of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
tip 2 for KDE:
Disable the annoying REALTIME sound server daemon.
To do so, open up the KDE control center - > Sound System, and in there theres an option under Sound Server that says run in real time.
VERY not necessary and causes lots of system hogs!
Thats about it for now. i share when i know.
Thanks.
Even though my bios reports ATA100 hdparm's tests report hillarious speeds. Heres a quick show:
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.83 seconds =178.22 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.41 seconds = 45.39 MB/sec
My big problem there is the first line witht he Timing buffer-cache.
As of today i have no resolution and my speed is as it shows.
I have found the "ultimate" hdparm line that will for sure show _YOU_ nice repsonse times:
hdparm -c3 -m16 -d1 -X69 -u1 -A1 -a1 /dev/hda
This line seems to work very nicely for me and it might not for you so please be careful.
Do a man hdparm PLEASE and find out what those commands mean before you jump on it.
You can put that line in your local startup file.
for Mandrake just throw it in the bottom of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
tip 2 for KDE:
Disable the annoying REALTIME sound server daemon.
To do so, open up the KDE control center - > Sound System, and in there theres an option under Sound Server that says run in real time.
VERY not necessary and causes lots of system hogs!
Thats about it for now. i share when i know.
Thanks.