Ben Collins wrote:
I suspected the disk, but hdparm is the only tool I know of for dealing with that, but I believe that's only for IDE drives, and this box has scsi:On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:42:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote:Kent West wrote:This year, I've gotten the opportunity to put Debian on a Sunblade 1000 (with 1GB RAM - whoo-hoo!). However, now that it's running Debian, it seems awfully sluggish.Another example: running "glxgears" only shows a frame rate of 26 to 44 FPS.GL isn't a good comparison, since it relies on video hardware, not the CPU (unless of course you are running it as software-GL). I have a Blade100, and I don't see it as being very slow. Maybe you are comparing the wrong things. What sort of disk does the Blade 1000 have? Is it IDE or scsi? Disk access depends more on the disk and disk controller, and less to do with CPU.
snert[@macs54]:/home/snert> mount/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 on /usr type ext3 (rw) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part3 on /var type ext3 (rw) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part6 on /tmp type ext3 (rw) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7 on /spare1 type ext3 (rw) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part8 on /spare2 type ext3 (rw) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part4 on /home type ext3 (rw)