Poor disk drive performance with FC3 RC3

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Thu Nov 4 18:51:04 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:40 -0500, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just recently installed FC3 RC3 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop and
> experienced _really_ wierd hard-drive performance (IDE drive). At first
> I noticed it when trying to start applications such as Evolution,
> FireFox, OpenOffice etc. but then I started testing it with hdparm -t :
> 
> # hdparm -t /dev/hda
don't use hdparm!

it's very unreliable for measuring performance; please use something
like tiobench (tiobench.sf.net) 
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