Hard drive performance, new kernel?

[Matthew Daubenspeck]

I have tried multiple things to speed up my hard drive access, and the
best I can seem to squeeze out of a 7200RPM 40GB HDD is 23 MB/s. That
just doesn't sound right... I have another box with another linux
distro with an ATA66 5400RPM drive that gets 40 MB/s without even
tweaking anything.

The only possibility I can thing of is that I never told the debian
installer what IDE controller I was using, and it is just loading a
generic. Is this possible?

Is there any easy way to recompile the kernel, or do I have to
download the sources and do it the old fashion way?


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Re: Hard drive performance, new kernel?

[Kirk Strauser]

At 2002-05-13T02:16:41Z, Matthew Daubenspeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have tried multiple things to speed up my hard drive access, and the
 best I can seem to squeeze out of a 7200RPM 40GB HDD is 23 MB/s. That just
 doesn't sound right... I have another box with another linux distro with
 an ATA66 5400RPM drive that gets 40 MB/s without even tweaking anything.
 
 The only possibility I can thing of is that I never told the debian
 installer what IDE controller I was using, and it is just loading a
 generic. Is this possible?

More likely is that your Debian box is reporting accurate transfer rates,
while your other Linux box is spitting out rather wild numbers.  40MB/s?  On
a 5400RPM drive?  That's not terribly likely, except in the situation where
you're repeatedly reading the same blocks in many consecutive transaction.
-- 
Kirk Strauser


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