Re: Music stutters during startup of programs

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:54:04PM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> panoramix:/home/jkr# hdparm -t /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  170 MB in  3.02 seconds =  56.28 MB/sec
> 
> panoramix:/home/jkr# hdparm -t /dev/sdb
> 
> /dev/sdb:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  176 MB in  3.09 seconds =  56.97 MB/sec
> 
> panoramix:/home/jkr# hdparm -t /dev/sdc
> 
> /dev/sdc:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  374 MB in  3.01 seconds = 124.11 MB/sec
> 
> This should be enough for listening MP3's without stuttering. Running
> hdparm on sda and sdb (both on the onboard Sil 3114 controller) makes
> the music stutter, sdc (on the 3ware 9500S)  not. 
> 
> I have run bonnie++ on all the disks. Running it on sda and sdb results
> in a totally unresponsive system and very modern music, (and the MP3's
> are not on those disks!!). Running bonnie++ on sdc gives no problem.

I wonder if the driver for sda/sdb is very inefficient and causing
the system to become unresponsive.  I have never used the sil3114
personally.

Len Sorensen