RE: [squid-users] Tweaking Disk Access on Linux

1)
man hdparm
2)
hdparm -t /dev/hda
to tests your hd performance....before hdparm
3)
hdparm -d1 -c1 /dev/hda
4)
hdparm -t /dev/hda
to test the results ;-)
You can run hdparm on all your disks, IDE / SCSI at the same time.

/Francisco

-----Original Message-----
From: Leonardo Rodrigues [mailto:coelho@persogo.com.br]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 2:27 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Tweaking Disk Access on Linux

    Hello Guys,

    I know Linux has an utility called hdparm. It seems that this utility can be used to 'tweak' some HD/controller parameters, speeding up I/O stuff.

    Questions:

    1) Am I Right ? Can hdparm really be used to tweak something, and make disk access faster ?
    2) If yes, I'd like some examples and opinions on how using it, if possible. Links would be equally useful.
    3) If 1 is yes, can it be used on IDE and SCSI disks, or only in one of them ?

    Hope hearing from you soon,
    Leonardo Rodrigues
    Persocom Network
Received on Fri May 11 2001 - 12:12:03 MDT