From: Brendan Pike <spike@superweb.ca>
To: hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE Harddrive Performance
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:33:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01122015330703.27161@spikes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112201307120.9437-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112201307120.9437-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
On Thursday 20 December 2001 02:08 pm, you wrote:
> > here is -T
> >
> > [root@spikes spike]# /sbin/hdparm -T /dev/hda
> > /dev/hda:
> > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.89 seconds = 32.90 MB/sec
>
> well, no wonder. on a modern machine, -T shows 200 MB/s.
> what kind of CPU/motherboard is this? I'm guessing it's
> a socket7 system with PC66 dram, perhaps just edo. the problem
> is that it's dram and probably PCI infrastructure can't
> really handle much bandwidth, so doesn't keep the disk "streaming".
Actually it is a Socket 7 AMD 300 with 384MB SDRAM PC-133 running at 100Mhz
Bus clock.
next parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-20 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112201307120.9437-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-12-20 19:33 ` Brendan Pike [this message]
2001-12-23 17:55 IDE Harddrive Performance Wayne Whitney
2001-12-23 18:37 ` Mark Hahn
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2001-12-22 18:20 Jim Radford
2001-12-22 21:36 ` Craig Knox
2001-12-23 8:11 ` Adam Keys
2001-12-20 19:25 Brendan Pike
2001-12-20 17:10 Brendan Pike
2001-12-20 17:22 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-20 17:41 ` Sebastian Dröge
2001-12-20 13:12 Brendan Pike
2001-12-19 15:32 Thomas Deselaers
2001-12-19 15:44 ` Brendan Pike
2001-12-19 15:55 ` Lee Packham
2001-12-19 16:01 ` Jan Niehusmann
2001-12-19 16:18 ` Brendan Pike
2001-12-19 16:28 ` Oleg Artamonov
2001-12-19 16:44 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-19 16:59 ` Dmitry Pogosyan
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112191101230.4575-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-12-19 16:37 ` Thomas Deselaers
2001-12-19 17:34 ` Mike Dresser
2001-12-19 15:55 ` Oleg Artamonov
2001-12-19 16:05 ` Thomas Deselaers
2001-12-19 16:15 ` Oleg Artamonov
2001-12-19 16:32 ` Thomas Deselaers
2001-12-19 16:38 ` Holger Lubitz
2001-12-22 8:21 ` Adam Keys
2001-12-22 8:56 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 10:10 ` Adam Keys
[not found] ` <01122215090500.01870@manta>
2001-12-22 13:23 ` Thomas Deselaers
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