Brian Parish wrote: >On my system I get: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec > >Is this good, bad, or average? > >cheers >Brian > >On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 12:42, civileme wrote: > >>J. Craig Woods wrote: >> >>>David wrote: >>> >>>>Hello experts, >>>> >>>>Last evening I installed MD8.2, and reformatted my / and /usr >>>>partitions as xfs. Now, just about everything seems to be running slower >>>>than MD8.1 on ext3 partitions. >>>> >>>>Did I smoke too much grass in my younger years or is this a reality? >>>> >>>>Is there something I maybe did wrong? >>>> >>>>Is there a check of some type that I could perform to test this? >>>> >>>>What could be causing this? >>>> >>>>confused >>>>Dave >>>> >>>Well the truth be known, you probably did smoke to much grass. But as >>>long as you did not hang out with Owsley, you should be ok... >>> >>>Try running hdparm -tT /dev/hdx (where x is your device) to get a >>>comparison of speed on your different mount points. >>> >>>(now there would be no one here that would know Owsley, right?) >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >>> >>actually hdparm -t /dev/hdx is more informative. The capital T >>basically measures the bandwidth of your memory. >> >>And if you are using software RAID, then it is less than informative. >> It works OK for RAID1 and 4 but not so well for 0 or 5, especially not >>for 0, where it is possible to exceed the speed of a single disk. >> >>But my measurements on creation and updating show XFS on a par or >>slightly better than ext2 which is itself 50% faster than ext3. (Yes, >>ext3 is like 66% the speed of ext2). >> >>Civileme >> >> >> >> >>---- >> > >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > That is great for UDMA100... in fact the best I have seen.
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