On September 28, 2004 11:35 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> You can slightly improve your disk performance by increasing: IO_support to
> 3:
>
> EIDE_32BIT=3
>
> if your hardware supports this. Or don't set it and let the driver set it.
>
> It is also quite possible that your have set the readahead to too large a
> value. I use only 8 and I have 50% better buffered disk reads.
Neither of these made any measurable difference on my system (the readings
always vary slightly from test to test, and these changes, individually and
together, produced results around the same level as without the changes).
Thanks for the suggestions though.
--
Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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