Should I enable hdparm?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/16 James Gray <james at gray.net.au>:
> Depends on what is causing the delays.  If your hard drive is PATA and not
> running in DMA mode, then hdparm will help.  If your drive is SATA, then
> hdparm will be of limited help.
>
> Best option is to do some digging (top, vmstat, strace, ltrace etc) and see
> what is causing the hold up.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James

Thanks. There are two IDE drives on this machine, so I will start exploring.

Dotan Cohen

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