From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HEpuz-0000ku-3H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:45:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l17Gi2QV025829; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 16:44:02 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.243]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l17GduQ1021281 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 16:39:57 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so320032ana for ; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:39:56 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=J5tbaHjxj8DlvJCYvAAuMVpOAN6qvNbYIqabbhWVM1dXeVIe4dNI5iybeFRwJEVFw2ucFpvO3I3ED7fC7zHIlGMQQ/aNk47ZX2/yTTw7wyPaP3CseKCgGSm+vF2HlaqCV/qfYfCHCJBqv+Qe2RfbhyabMt3fKvdBxFbZ13hH4M4= Received: by 10.100.144.11 with SMTP id r11mr8001765and.1170866396049; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:39:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.56.8 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 08:39:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6142e6140702070839x6e902adal955d3b0cf2feabca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:39:56 +0100 From: "Daniel Pielmeier" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking In-Reply-To: <45C9F7A1.10806@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7LFgI-6qK-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <7LFqt-6Eo-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <7LUIK-4Qn-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <45C9F7A1.10806@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: 6defb749-6dfc-4418-a163-5ee7c14dab63 X-Archives-Hash: 61626f91b08e6dea853a93362d623876 > The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency > desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop useable > under heavy disk usage.These are my hdparm settings: [snip] Thanks for your suggestions. As i have an SATA harddisk, can i use hdparm with it , i thought it could only be used with PATA devices and for SATA there is sdparm. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list