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From: war <war@starband.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: System Locks Temporarily When Untarring Large Files
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:53:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF3C8DC.C8FE24B8@starband.net> (raw)

Forgot to mention.

Type of Drive:
The hard drive is a 40GB IBM-DTLA-305040.

Speed of Drive:
When many apps are open I get:
Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.55 seconds = 25.10 MB/sec
When I am in single user mode, I get 29.50MB/s.

Drive Information:
# hdparm -v /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 I/O support  =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 nowerr       =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    =  8 (on)
 geometry     = 5005/255/63, sectors = 80418240, start = 0



             reply	other threads:[~2001-11-15 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-15 13:53 war [this message]
2001-11-15 14:11 ` System Locks Temporarily When Untarring Large Files Wilson
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2001-11-15 14:10 Thomas Hood
2001-11-15 13:49 war

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