On Oct 21, 2003, at 8:56 pm, Matt Garman wrote:
...Under the Debian
system, it took, on average, two or three seconds to load this data into
memory. However, under the Gentoo system, it takes eight or nine
seconds on average to load the data.
What kernel are you using..? The Gentoo-sources kernels wossisname interactivity (IE: perceived performance on desktop apps) over actual straight-line performance.
Have you tried running `/etc/init.d/hdparm start` & repeating your tests..?
Stroller.
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