Disk I/O - too slow?
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Tue Feb 24 01:52:11 UTC 2004
Am Di, den 24.02.2004 schrieb Don Levey um 02:30:
> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 05:15, Dean Mumby wrote:
>
> I have a intel d865perl mb with hyperthreading , sata , and all the same
> features , i installed fedora , redhat 9, etc with legacy mode and then
> simply switched to enhanced mode and i am running fine. did you check
> wether your system had enabled dma
>
> hdparm -tT /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 3568 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1784.00 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 166 MB in 3.00 seconds = 55.33 MB/sec
>
> not slow at all
> ----------------
>
> So... I've got DMA enabled, Multiple I/O, EIDE 32-bit and lookahead
> enabled in my /etc/sysconfig/harddisks file. Running that hdparm line
> gives me:
>
> /dev/hdb:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 1204 MB in 2.00 seconds = 601.49 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 96 MB in 3.00 seconds = 31.97 MB/sec
>
> ...clearly *not* fast. This is a Maxtor Diamond ATA 120Gb drive,
> 7200rpm, on an ASUS A7V8X-X mb. I'm running FC1 with a 2.6.3 kernel
> from kernel.org. Any suggestions for speeding up my I/O (or more info
> to provide)?
>
> TIA, -Don
Just let hands off /etc/sysconfig/harddisks.
Alexander
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