Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-26 Thread Andreas Baer
Bill Davidsen wrote: Andreas Baer wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: One other oddment about this motherboard, Forgive if I have over-snipped this trying to make it relevant... Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote:

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andreas Baer wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: One other oddment about this motherboard, Forgive if I have over-snipped this trying to make it relevant... Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: There clearly is a

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andreas Baer wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: One other oddment about this motherboard, Forgive if I have over-snipped this trying to make it relevant... Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: There clearly is a

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-26 Thread Andreas Baer
Bill Davidsen wrote: Andreas Baer wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: One other oddment about this motherboard, Forgive if I have over-snipped this trying to make it relevant... Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote:

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Andreas Baer
Bill Davidsen wrote: One other oddment about this motherboard, Forgive if I have over-snipped this trying to make it relevant... Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: There clearly is a problem on the system installed

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:38:25PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > It's even more complex than that as far as I know, you also have the > issue of seek times - tracks near the middle of the platter will be > nearer the head more often (on average) then tracks at the edge. > > For people who like

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
One other oddment about this motherboard, Forgive if I have over-snipped this trying to make it relevant... Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: There clearly is a problem on the system installed on this machine. You

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 7/25/05, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:51:49PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: > > > > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: > > >>Here I have > > >> > > >>/dev/hda: 26.91 MB/sec > > >>/dev/hda1:

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:12:58PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: > Erik Mouw wrote: > >Easy: Drives don't have the same speed on all tracks. The platters are > >built-up from zones with different recording densities: zones near the > >center of the platters have a lower recording density and hence a

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Andreas Baer
Erik Mouw wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:51:49PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Here I have /dev/hda: 26.91 MB/sec /dev/hda1: 26.90 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) /dev/hda7: 17.89 MB/sec

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:51:49PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: > > Willy Tarreau wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: > >>Here I have > >> > >>/dev/hda: 26.91 MB/sec > >>/dev/hda1: 26.90 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) > >>/dev/hda7: 17.89

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:51:49 +0200, Andreas Baer said: > > a reason for what ? the fact that the notebook performs faster than the > > desktop while slower on I/O ? > > No, a reason why the partition with Linux (ReiserFS or Ext3) is always slower > than the Windows partition? My first guess is

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/25/05, Andreas Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > >>Here I have > >> > >> /dev/hda: 26.91 MB/sec > >> /dev/hda1: 26.90 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) > >> /dev/hda7: 17.89 MB/sec(Linux EXT3) > >> > >>Could you give me a reason how this is possible? > > > > > > a

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Andreas Baer
Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: (...) I have (S-ATA-150 Disk 80GB) /dev/sda: 50.59 MB/sec /dev/sda1: 50.62 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) /dev/sda6: 41.63 MB/sec(Linux ReiserFS) On the Notebook I have at most an

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: (...) > I have (S-ATA-150 Disk 80GB) > > /dev/sda: 50.59 MB/sec > /dev/sda1: 50.62 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) > /dev/sda6: 41.63 MB/sec(Linux ReiserFS) > > On the Notebook I have at most an ATA-100 Disk

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Paulo Marques
Andreas Baer wrote: [...] Vmstat for Notebook P4 3.0 GHz 512 MB RAM: procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 1 0 0 179620 14812 228832003321 557 184

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Andreas Baer
Hi, Thanks for reply. Sorry, but I've never done any vmstat operation before so next time I'll send the output in the first mail :) Willy Tarreau wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:50:05AM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Hi everyone, First I want to say sorry for this BIG post, but it

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Andreas Baer
Hi, Thanks for reply. Sorry, but I've never done any vmstat operation before so next time I'll send the output in the first mail :) Willy Tarreau wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:50:05AM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Hi everyone, First I want to say sorry for this BIG post, but it

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Paulo Marques
Andreas Baer wrote: [...] Vmstat for Notebook P4 3.0 GHz 512 MB RAM: procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 1 0 0 179620 14812 228832003321 557 184

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: (...) I have (S-ATA-150 Disk 80GB) /dev/sda: 50.59 MB/sec /dev/sda1: 50.62 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) /dev/sda6: 41.63 MB/sec(Linux ReiserFS) On the Notebook I have at most an ATA-100 Disk with

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Andreas Baer
Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: (...) I have (S-ATA-150 Disk 80GB) /dev/sda: 50.59 MB/sec /dev/sda1: 50.62 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) /dev/sda6: 41.63 MB/sec(Linux ReiserFS) On the Notebook I have at most an

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/25/05, Andreas Baer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here I have /dev/hda: 26.91 MB/sec /dev/hda1: 26.90 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) /dev/hda7: 17.89 MB/sec(Linux EXT3) Could you give me a reason how this is possible? a reason for what ? the fact that

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:51:49 +0200, Andreas Baer said: a reason for what ? the fact that the notebook performs faster than the desktop while slower on I/O ? No, a reason why the partition with Linux (ReiserFS or Ext3) is always slower than the Windows partition? My first guess is that

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:51:49PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Here I have /dev/hda: 26.91 MB/sec /dev/hda1: 26.90 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) /dev/hda7: 17.89 MB/sec(Linux EXT3)

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Andreas Baer
Erik Mouw wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:51:49PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Here I have /dev/hda: 26.91 MB/sec /dev/hda1: 26.90 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) /dev/hda7: 17.89 MB/sec

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:12:58PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Erik Mouw wrote: Easy: Drives don't have the same speed on all tracks. The platters are built-up from zones with different recording densities: zones near the center of the platters have a lower recording density and hence a lower

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 7/25/05, Erik Mouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:51:49PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Here I have /dev/hda: 26.91 MB/sec /dev/hda1: 26.90 MB/sec(Windows

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
One other oddment about this motherboard, Forgive if I have over-snipped this trying to make it relevant... Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: There clearly is a problem on the system installed on this machine. You

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:38:25PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: It's even more complex than that as far as I know, you also have the issue of seek times - tracks near the middle of the platter will be nearer the head more often (on average) then tracks at the edge. For people who like visuals,

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Andreas Baer
Bill Davidsen wrote: One other oddment about this motherboard, Forgive if I have over-snipped this trying to make it relevant... Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: There clearly is a problem on the system installed

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-24 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:50:05AM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > First I want to say sorry for this BIG post, but it seems that I have no > other chance. :) It's not big enough, you did not explain us what your database does nor how it does work, what type of resource it

Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-24 Thread Andreas Baer
Hi everyone, First I want to say sorry for this BIG post, but it seems that I have no other chance. :) I have a Asus P4C800-DX with a P4 2,4 GHz 512 KB L2 Cache "Northwood" Processor (lowest Processor that supports HyperThreading) and 1GB DDR400 RAM. I'm also running S-ATA disks with about

Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-24 Thread Andreas Baer
Hi everyone, First I want to say sorry for this BIG post, but it seems that I have no other chance. :) I have a Asus P4C800-DX with a P4 2,4 GHz 512 KB L2 Cache Northwood Processor (lowest Processor that supports HyperThreading) and 1GB DDR400 RAM. I'm also running S-ATA disks with about 50

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-24 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:50:05AM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Hi everyone, First I want to say sorry for this BIG post, but it seems that I have no other chance. :) It's not big enough, you did not explain us what your database does nor how it does work, what type of resource it