20 Sep
2002
20 Sep
'02
12:05 a.m.
I have made a clean install of RH7.3 on the same system. Base performance is identical. Removing unnecessary daemons and upgrading kernel improves boot time by a few seconds and eliminates excessive memory usage (caused by a cron job) but makes no difference to program loading times and base disk asccess speed of 3MB/sec. However hdparn -d1 /dev/hda1 now does not work and returns an error of HDIO_SET_DMA failed. Operation not permitted. Man is silent on this. Anyone know what it means?
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