On Saturday 01 February 2003 05:43 pm, Scott Long wrote: > Have you made > sure that the DVD drive is using DMA? 'sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma' will > tell you, and can be set at boot from /boot/loader.conf.
This was the main problem. Turning on DMA makes everything run smoothly and drops the load averages significantly. I must have made this change to my 4.x system once about a year ago, and completely forgotten about it since. I should write an addition to the handbook about this... Thanks! -David -- "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." -P. J. O'Rourke Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
