If DMA is stable with your drive,chipset combination, then enabling it
might speed things up by freeing the CPU from the IDE disk I/O
operations, allowing it to spend more time on networking/squid. This is
however assuming that the CPU is the bottleneck in your configuration..
-- Henrik Nordstrom Squid hacker John Deschamps wrote: > For now I'm stuck with using an 8GB IDE drive for RH > 6.1/Squid 2.3.STABLE2. Will enabling 32 bit I/O and DMA via hdparm > improve squid performance and/or will it introduce (in)stability > issues?Received on Sat Aug 05 2000 - 11:35:10 MDT
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