System goes very slow (was: Re: [linux-lvm] Test of LVM)

Sun May 27 07:43:31 UTC 2001

> root at notch:/home/pwk > bonnie -s 1024MB
> Bonnie 1.2: File './Bonnie.2815', size: 1073741824, volumes: 1
> Writing with putc()...          done:   3270 kB/s  35.4 %CPU
> Rewriting...                    done:   1505 kB/s  19.3 %CPU
> Writing intelligently...        done:   4682 kB/s  11.4 %CPU
> [I stopped bonnie here, do you need more output ?]

Is DMA set on your harddrive ? (hdparm)

DL

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