[ltp] T30: Improve disk performance?

[Alexander Gran]

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Am Dienstag, 20. April 2004 05:34 schrieb Atul Chitnis:
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> Are there any tried and tested hdparm tweaks that could improve
> performance in any way? The disk feels major sluggish.

try hdparm -u1 /dev/hda
This won't improve throuhput, but the sluggishness should improve ;)

> Possibly related to this - is it true that turning on SCSI emulation for
> the cdwriter causes DMA to be turned off, drastically reducing read
> performance?

IIRC, yes. You may wan't to try 2.6 and burn without SCSI emulation.

Alex

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