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Re: latency & my BookPC VIA ProSavage P4M266 VT8751 (Northbridge) and VT8233 (Southbridge)-based Motherboard
- To: http://www.testman.com/~r (Richard), http://www.rcn.com/~bhavani.nh.ultranet (Richard)
- Subject: Re: latency & my BookPC VIA ProSavage P4M266 VT8751 (Northbridge) and VT8233 (Southbridge)-based Motherboard
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:13:03 -0400
- In-Reply-To: <QACAA0NvqATGiowGJhMgMA@robert>
Well, it's better, but it's still unstable. I'm going to try using the
machine more extensively and see just how unstable it is.
> From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 09:24:06 -0400
>
> As it turns out, one can use "setpci" to change the latency in Linux -- a
> kernel patch/module doesn't seem to be needed. I'm testing it out right
> now. (I increased the latency for the IDE PCI device from 32 to 96. Disk
> accesses are now much slower.) There's no way to change the latency in
> my AmiBIOS. "setpci" won't let you change the latency on the AC97-based
> soundcard.
>
> I'll keep you updated.