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
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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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