On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 16:16:30 +0200 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 07 June 2003 08:55, Joe Stroller wrote: > > I have recently gotten Gentoo installed on a Sony Vaio PCG-C1XD; I > > am using Gentoo sources (linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5) but it seems quite > > slow. > > > > Now I know it's only a little Pentium II, but I haven't even > > installed KDE, yet! It has 64meg RAM and 750meg of the 12 gig drive > > is swap. I arranged this swap as hda2, right after my /boot > > partition, as I believe this allows faster access. (?) > > > > hdparm says: > > > > omf root # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 6.86 seconds = 18.66 > > MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.36 seconds = > > 10.07 MB/sec > > Hmm.. [dodgy] results: probably not enough free memory for a > > proper test. omf root # /etc/init.d/hdparm start > > * Starting hdparm... > > * Running hdparm on disc0... [ ok > > ] > > omf root # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > > laptop-harddisks are slow, so this result is not suprising low. > Putting swap to the beginning of the harddisk, is a good thing, but it > can not cure slow hardware ;o) My laptop's (Dell Latitide C810) harddrive is significantly slower than my desktop, but I still think I get a fairly decent speed compared to the OP - shouldn't he expect more? root>hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.74 seconds =172.97 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.54 seconds = 18.08 MB/sec root>hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 2432/255/63, sectors = 39070080, start = 0 (These are default settings upon bootup) Einar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
