From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264271AbTLYDAx (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:00:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264275AbTLYDAx (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:00:53 -0500 Received: from smtp06.ya.com ([62.151.11.163]:8414 "EHLO smtp.ya.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264271AbTLYDAw (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:00:52 -0500 Message-ID: <3FEA7399.5040108@wanadoo.es> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 06:20:25 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Luis_Miguel_Garc=EDa?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031206 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: IDE performance drop between 2.4.23 and 2.6.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I cannot compare 2.4 with 2.6, but I think this is not too much... It's a nforce2 motherboard, paralel-ATA and Seagate Barracuda IV (or V, I cannot remember). AthlonXP-2500+. Any of the IDE gurus can say something about this? Thanks!! /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1740 MB in 2.00 seconds = 868.83 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 94 MB in 3.03 seconds = 31.03 MB/sec bash-2.05b# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0