Re: [git patches] IDE update

Ingo Molnar
2005-07-08T10:21:47Z

* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:

> But! I used hdparm -t solely, 2.6 was always ~5% faster than 2.4. But
> using -Tt slowed down the hd speed by about 30%. So it looks like some
> scheduler interaction, perhaps the memory timing loops gets it marked
> as batch or something?

to check whether that could be the case, could you try:

nice -n -20 hdparm -t /dev/hdc

does that produce different results?

Ingo