Ian, Could you please send us the URL for that page. I'm having some problems that I believe may be related to disk performance. Once in a while, my system will freeze. The thing that always happens when it thaws is that the disk light goes one. Thanks, Eric On Thursday 04 December 2003 12:21, Ian Stoner wrote: <snip> > > That nailed it! Thanks, Nate. I had never heard of hdparm--I found a > webpage that recommended some likely safe settings, tried them, and got > a more than 5-fold increase in buffered disc reads. I've included the > output of the commands I ran, in case anyone cares. Maybe I'm the only > one who's never heard of hdparm? If anyone knows of any other > parameters I should pay attention to, please advise. > > Thanks again! > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list