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Date:      Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:11:09 -0500
From:      "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardon@siue.edu>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Rino Mardo <rmardo@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Performance tuning and adding RAM
Message-ID:  <20010830151109.C30158@client156-52.ll.siue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <15246.10584.656217.786313@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:54:00AM -0500
References:  <15245.52453.614096.245669@guru.mired.org> <20010830004542.A80091-100000@benny.geektank.org> <15245.62127.417241.42347@guru.mired.org> <000b01c1314b$533d0260$0469a7cb@8189779819> <15246.10584.656217.786313@guru.mired.org>

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:54:00AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> [Context lost to top posting.]
>=20
> Rino Mardo <rmardo@yahoo.com> types:
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> > is "hdparm" any different from this disk caches you're talking about?
> > i noticed (with linux) in my p100 box that if i don't use hdparm the
> > hd system runs about 30% slower.
> > will using hdparm (in /etc/rc.local) make any difference?
>=20
> Without knowing what hdparm is or does, I can't answer that question.

hdparm allows the user to configure certain IDE hard-drive parameters.=20

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Victor R. Cardona
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