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List:       crux
Subject:    Re: Devfs and performance
From:       Håvard Moen <vanilje () netcom ! no>
Date:       2003-02-18 8:48:44
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:23:54AM -0600, Todd Osborne wrote:
> The system installed easy and gave no problems. Performance seems poor. I
> have installed Trustix and Linux From Scratch on this box before and did not
> see any problems. Even the boot takes a long time to load the kernel. The
> performance seems related to the disk IO, but I have not put any hard
> figures on it. This is simply "feel". It feels slow. The drive is
> partitioned into 8 parts, 1-3 are primary (/boot, swap, and /) and partition
> 4 is extended to provide 4 more parts (/var, /scratch, /usr/local, and
> /home).
> 
> Any help on tuning the performance of finding the bottleneck would be
> appreciated.
Did you remember to enable dma in the kernel? Have you tried hdparm?
Check the bootlog to see if the drive is using udma.

Regards
Håvard Moen

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