Todd, I thought I mentioned I had tweaked the drive before, but perhaps I just thought I did. Anyway, here's my results (2 runs), which seem fairly decent to me. This is a Maxtor 20GB ATA 100, 5400rpm drive, on an Abit KX7-333 DDR board, and Crucial PC2700 ram.
/dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.45 seconds =284.44 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.27 seconds = 28.19 MB/sec /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.44 seconds =290.91 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.27 seconds = 28.19 MB/sec Is this result normal for the hardware I have? Robert On Thursday 27 February 2003 06:33 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > flacycads wrote on Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:36:14AM -0500 : > > However, my experience on several dual boot boxes with different > > versions of windows and Linux has always been that overall computer > > performance is significantly better when booted to windows. I'm sorry, > > but that's what happens- there's no question about it. Of course I do > > have any windows installation I run highly tweaked and tuned to > > perfection( as good as is possible), and perhaps I can tweak my Linux > > installs a little more than I presently have. > > Is hdparm installed? What's the result of 'hdparm -tT /dev/hda'? If > less than 25 MB/sec, then edit /etc/sysconfig/harddisks and uncomment > all the different modes and reboot. Run the hdparm test again. I > actually have one box where enabling all the stuff made it run _slower_, > but that's a rarity. Normally, it picks the raw read rate up from about > 8 MB/sec to 25-35 MB/sec. > > Blue skies... Todd > - -- > > | MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get what you want. | > | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get experience. | > | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | --unknown origin | > > Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21pre4-10mdk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+XqBllp7v05cW2woRAnJcAJ9TouM+8SSoJEQLz1PliKZJ1IX6jwCeKWra > u1hIPWPtkdM9epn1CWEOpk8= > =8NSb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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