Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] about hdparm (and csound)
From: dave willis (dubson_AT_dhammanet.net)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 06:55:32 EEST
On 4 Oct 2001, Josh Green wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 13:14, Peter Surda wrote:
> > I think you are misinterpreting this. It means that if you type
> > hdparm -blahblahblah
> > it has negative impact on the latency, hence you should not run it often.
> > Having it in initscripts is usually enough.
>
> I really doubt that. I think that list of things not to do is while you
> are running your RT task. I don't see why hdparm would make your machine
> worse and worse with latency each time you run it. It probably just
> kills 50ms when ran.
i think you're misinterperating peter as well, as he did not say that it
"would make your machine worse and worse." he's saying basically the same
as you. there's no need to run it more than once per boot, so i do just
have it in my init (for my ide hd and dvd drive) and forget about it.
-dave
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