Re: Friday night aklug server

From: Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 18:21:05 AKDT

Greg Madden wrote:

>On Thursday 07 July 2005 01:28 pm, Damien Hull wrote:
>
>
>>There were problems with the server last Friday.
>>1. DMA was not setup
>>2. Transferring data from/to the server was very slow
>>
>>It was determined by others ( not me ) at the meeting that the DMA
>>issue was causing the slow connection. I think connection speeds were
>>around 1 to 2 megabytes/second. The Ethernet card and both switches
>>can do 100mB/s.
>>
>>I'm compiling a new kernel with the DMA driver in the kernel. I've
>>never done anything with DMA. Any and all info or suggestions about
>>setting up DMA will be appreciated.
>>
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>
>In the kernel configuration, the chipset support for your box , Intel
>BX, look under :
>
>Device Drivers>
>ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support?
>Intel PIIXn chipsets support (BLK_DEV_PIIX)
>
>
The kernel is compiled and I'm about to reboot. Do I need to configure
anything after I reboot?
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