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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. A very nice, recent article ... by hubie · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Linux Journal has a nice article on fine-tuning your system (doing things like recompiling the kernel with the best compiler options and optimizations (it also covers hdparam).

    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.