Re: Zlatko's I/O slowdown status

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On 2 Nov 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:

> It was write caching. Somehow disk was running with write cache turned
> off and I was getting abysmal write performance. Then I found hdparm
> -W0 /proc/ide/hd* in /etc/init.d/umountfs which is ran during shutdown
>
> I would advise users of Debian unstable to comment that part,

Why do you want Debian users to loose their data ? ;)

The 'hdparm -W0' is useful in getting the drive to flush
out the data to disk instead of having it linger around
in the drive cache.

regards,

Rik
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