Re: OLD [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-04-23 Thread David
J. Craig Woods said onto me: snip 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... snip Just going through my old mail... Who's Owsley? --

Re: OLD [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-04-23 Thread David
PROTECTED] |Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:38 AM |Subject: Re: OLD [expert] Smoking Grass | | | | | J. Craig Woods said onto me: | | snip | Well the truth be known, you probably did smoke to much grass. But as | long as you did not hang out with Owsley

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-21 Thread Brad Felmey
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 21:35, civileme wrote: 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? That is great for UDMA100... in fact the best I have seen. dpt_i2o, 256MB cache, 64-bit PCI (8)

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:56, 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 Since we are all sharing [root@tamriel elx]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hdg /dev/hdg: Timing buffer-cache

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-21 Thread Ken Thompson
On Thursday 21 March 2002 03:26 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:56, 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 Since we are all sharing [root@tamriel elx]#

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread J. Craig Woods
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

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
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

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread Brian Parish
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 /

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread Lorne Shantz
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 07:56 pm, you 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? I'm guessing it is good. I get only Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.22 seconds = 12.26 MB/sec I'm using a 200mhz

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
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

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:42, civileme wrote: 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,

[expert] smoking grass revisted

2002-03-20 Thread Craig Woods
Yes, the lower case t in runing hdparm gives you specific info on disc reads but in knowing what the upper case T does will also help. I once had a problem with my disc speed, and until I ran the T switch, I could not see it was really a problem with my FSB speed. Turns out the mobo was not