ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance
I have an IBM ATA-100 30G harddrive, attached to a ASUS CUSL2-C (Intel
815EP-based) mobo.
The kernel is not even using the drive in UDMA mode. The performance
is *horrible*: every time I copy to the disk the CPU usage goes up all
the way and I'm seeing things like "load average: 5.47, 5.02, 3.27",
which is only caused by disk access.
,----[ dmesg ]
| PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=244b
| PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
| ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa800-0xa807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
| ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa808-0xa80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
| hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, ATA DISK drive
| hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
| ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
| ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
| hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, 9797MB w/1900kB Cache, CHS=19906/16/63, UDMA
| hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, 29314MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63
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As you can see, the other HD (which is an ATA-66 Quantum) is at least
used in UDMA mode.
What is the reason the kernel dislikes the drive so much? ;^)
Do you suppose I've missed some option in kernel configuration? Any
other possible reasons? Could the fact that the whole drive is one
30G ext2fs partition have anything to do with the slowness?
Many thanks for any suggestions,
--
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.
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