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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. IT hought this said "Linux Turning tricks" by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I just pictured the goatse.cx guy giving a penguin in a miniskirt and cheap makup 20$ for a quickie.
    And all i have to say to that image is , Ow.

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  2. lol by silicon_synapse · · Score: -1, Redundant

    When I read the headline I thought for SURE it said "Linux turning tricks?" I was very eager to see what in the world the article was about.

  3. I think I need to put my contacts in... by behrman · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...because when I read the headline for this topic in my Slashbox, I could have sworn that it was a discussion of some new Open Source revenue model. I read it as: Linux turning tricks.

    d'oh!