Topic: My SME is soooOOOO slow.

[sixxeight]

WOW - thanks....

[Charlie Brady]

Rob Wellesley wrote:

> FYI the hdparm "feature" outline in Darrells howto will be
> dropped from 5.6

To be replaced with something considerably better.

Copy /etc/sysconfig/harddisks to /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda and then edit that file to choose exactly the IDE interface settings you want for your first hard disk. Repeat for hdc, and.or for any other IDE hard drive you have. Then reboot.

Charlie

[Rob Wellesley]

Does anyone know of any "with it" HD manufacturers that provide recommendations for HDPARM use??

[Lightman]

Hi!
Just to check, what kind of network card did u use?.

It's weird, I have SME 5.0 running on a P166 , 64Mb ram 10gig hd
and 2, 3Com (905C and 905B) and always get about 90% net capacity
in readings and about 60% in writings (due to the small intervals when
the HD writes data and no lan traffic, I think it's because of the low ram).

tryed in a friend's server with Pentium II 300 slot 1, 128mb ram soyo
intel mobo and 20 gig hd, and get about 70-80% in writing a 500 mb file.
and a sustained 90% reading all the time.

all of this is with 3com network cards and 3 com hubs, all 100mbit network.

I think that AMD is not very good for servers, anyway, and the these
3com boards helps a lot when speed matters.

see you

Leandro

[sixxeight]

i've installed my SME on a 2.5" IBM-HD UDMA 66 and add 2 40GB HD's for software-raid. In this configuration hdparm works well. If i try to install the SME to an 10 GB 3.5" HD (I've tried different models , all UDMA 66 or 100) hdparm didn't work. All installation are on the same computer und with the same BIOS-settings.
I type in console "hdparm -X69 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda". All settings are accepted and work well but after reboot they're gone.
WHAT CAN I DO ????

...or what's my misstake

Ulf

[Bill Talcott]

sixxeight wrote:
>
> All settings are accepted and work well but after reboot
> they're gone.
> WHAT CAN I DO ????
>
> ...or what's my misstake
>
> Ulf

Charlie Brady wrote:
>
> Copy /etc/sysconfig/harddisks to /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda
> and then edit that file to choose exactly the IDE interface
> settings you want for your first hard disk. Repeat for hdc,
> and.or for any other IDE hard drive you have. Then reboot.

[Lightman]

Hi

Did you put the command in the rc.d ?, so it will be loaded every
time you start the system?.

I have added the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:

hdparm -X66 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda

don't know if this is the best place to put this command, but
works fine for me .

could done it better but it work so fast with this parameters
that i didn't wanted to expermient beyond that

My HWD is: PII-350 100mhz fsb, 128 Mb ram, 8gig seagate ata66
drive, and 2 3com nic.

c-u

lightman