Re: IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-27 Thread Jaswinder Singh
"Miquel van Smoorenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you sure it is idle. It might be running something from cron- > say 'updatedb' or similar. That will cause a lot of disk i/o, > and _ofcourse_ performance will be bad then - the machine is > doing a lot of other things. > I am the only

Re: IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <00c701c0e6d8$2b28ea40$4aa6b3d0@Toshiba>, Jaswinder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am not able to understand why Linux read and/or write harddisk after some >time (after few hours ) , harddisk read/write leds keep on glowing for few >minutes , even though nobody working on it and m

Re: IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-27 Thread Jaswinder Singh
From: "Jakob Østergaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > The answer for both of you is: > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hd{whatever} > > Without DMA enabled, performance is going to suck. 1.9 MB/sec is actually pretty > good without DMA ;) > i think DMA or PCI is not my solution , atleast :) Thank you,

Re: IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-27 Thread Jaswinder Singh
"Chris Wedgwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 05:16:42PM -0700, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > When ever i copy big data (around 400 to 700 MB ) from one > partion to another my machine do not response at all (i can not > work on another shell) during data transfer

Re: IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-27 Thread francois . cami
> The answer for both of you is: > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hd{whatever} > > Without DMA enabled, performance is going to suck. 1.9 MB/sec is actually pretty > good without DMA ;) I agree. I get around 4MB/s without and 35.75MB/s with... hdparm -c3 -d1 -m16 /dev/hda on a KT133 (A7V) and 45GB IB

Re: IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-27 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 05:16:42PM -0700, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > > > RedHat 7.1 - IDE IBM 41.1 GIG > > Update to 2.4.5 -> noticed, that hdparm -t /dev/hda went down from 10 > > MByte/sec to 1.9 MByte/sec > > Any special Options, beside ide-scsi driver activated .. > > > > Anybody noticed the s

Re: Solved ?: IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-27 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Guido Stepken schrieb am 27.05.01 um 12:06 Uhr: > Hi ! > > My performance problemes have disappeared. I recompiled the kernel with: > > (Direct) PCI access mode > APIC and IOApic == OFF > SCSI competely == OFF > NE1000/2000 Modules compiled in as Module (directly compiled in did not work) >

Solved ?: IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-27 Thread Guido Stepken
Hi ! My performance problemes have disappeared. I recompiled the kernel with: (Direct) PCI access mode APIC and IOApic == OFF SCSI competely == OFF NE1000/2000 Modules compiled in as Module (directly compiled in did not work) Changed BIOS PCI Mode to AUTO (perhaps useless) Now my performance

Re: IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-26 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Guido Stepken schrieb am 26.05.01 um 22:19 Uhr: > Hi ! > > RedHat 7.1 - IDE IBM 41.1 GIG > Update to 2.4.5 -> noticed, that hdparm -t /dev/hda went down from 10 > MByte/sec to 1.9 MByte/sec > Any special Options, beside ide-scsi driver activated .. > > Anybody noticed the same problem ? Any c

Re: IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-26 Thread Jaswinder Singh
> > RedHat 7.1 - IDE IBM 41.1 GIG > Update to 2.4.5 -> noticed, that hdparm -t /dev/hda went down from 10 > MByte/sec to 1.9 MByte/sec > Any special Options, beside ide-scsi driver activated .. > > Anybody noticed the same problem ? Any clues ? > yes , i am also not happy with IDE performance of

IDE Performance lack !

2001-05-26 Thread Guido Stepken
Hi ! RedHat 7.1 - IDE IBM 41.1 GIG Update to 2.4.5 -> noticed, that hdparm -t /dev/hda went down from 10 MByte/sec to 1.9 MByte/sec Any special Options, beside ide-scsi driver activated .. Anybody noticed the same problem ? Any clues ? tnx in advance ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send t