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Linux Tuning Tricks?

Posted by michael on from the extra-10-horsepower dept.

Milo_Mindbender writes: "Over the weekend I was attempting to improve my CD ripping performance and discovered RedHat 7.2 was running my Ultra/ATA 100 hard drive in a very slow non-DMA mode. After a fair amount of searching for how to fix this, a trivial change (look here) improved drive performance from 3MBs to 38MBs! FSCK on my 40gb partition went from over 5 minutes to under 1! This issue wasn't documented in RedHat's manuals but it effected a number of boxes in our office so I'm betting many other people in the world have the same problem. This made me wonder how many other common Linux tuning snafus there might be that a lot of people are probably missing. Do you know of any?"

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  1. Prostitute Penguin by JonBob · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had to read this story's subject three times before I realized it did not say "Linux Turning Tricks."

    1. Re:Prostitute Penguin by EnVisiCrypt · · Score: 3, Funny

      I thought the same thing when I read the headline.

      > "Linux Turning Tricks."

      I could make a joke about open "sores", but I won't.

      --


      *everything* is Orwellian to cats.
  2. Re:Lame Grammer Post by The+AtomicPunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spelling grammar correctly would help your case. :)

  3. Re:A very nice, recent article ... by dubl-u · · Score: 3, Funny

    My only gripe with LJ articles is that, even if you put them in print mode, they still run off the end of my paper when I print them.

    So I just looked up this "paper" thing on Google, and it sounds really cool, kinda like a flat-panel display with a built-in battery. But how do you slice the trees so thin?