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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Nick on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @13:12

One of the best speed improvements you can get is by making your hard disks use DMA transfers. This will generally making things load faster.

Run hdparm /dev/hda to see what things are currently set as.
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda turns DMA on on hda.

It does make a substational difference. I think the speed difference between distros can be explained by different ones enabling it by default.

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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Christian Lavoie on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @14:05

Sorry to disappoint you, but DMA was turned off on my system... (Why not? No clue...)

(Thanx for the tip tho =)

Are there any counter-advices to using DMA on HDs?

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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Nick on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @14:56

I think it is safe to use DMA, except on afew dodgy drivers/controllers.

Just thought of another speed up (well not so much a speed up, as a way to increase responsiveness which I think Debian uses) is to run X at a -20 priority instead of 0.

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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Justin on Saturday 02/Jun/2001, @06:30

Be careful with hdparm and DMA. I destroyed my hard drive with it awhile back. No more hdparm for me! Back everything up first, or do it from a fresh install (where you don't have much to lose).

-Justin

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