Linux Tuning Tricks?

Posted by michael on Thursday March 14, 2002 @02:26AM 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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You know you're reading /. too much when... by itwerx · 2002-03-14 05:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I was reading the comments here and when I got to the end I read the little cookie/quote which is always at the bottom of the page. This one said:
Dr. Livingston? Dr. Livingston I. Presume?

I had to read it several times before I realised that it was an italic "I." and not "/."
(I can't get the font to set properly in here, so it doesn't look as much like a slash now)
Re:Lame Grammer Post by SomethingOrOther · 2002-03-14 06:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Errrrrm,
Correcting someones spelling/grammer is a bit like shouting 'Hitler' in an argument.
You have just automaticaly lost. :-)

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