Re: problems with I/O performance with 2.4.12-ac3

Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-22T12:09:19Z

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 07:53:28PM +0400, Dmitry Volkoff wrote:
> Hi,
> On my machine HDD is slow with all ac-kernels I've tried so far.
> There is even more simple test -- hdparm.
>
> 2.4.12-ac3:
> # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.70 seconds =182.86 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.88 seconds = 22.22 MB/sec
>
> 2.4.13-pre3:
> # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> /dev/hda
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.63 seconds =203.00 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.57 seconds = 40.76 MB/sec

this should be mostly the blkdev in pagecache and possibly also the vm.

Andrea