Re: OT: performance problems.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:24:04 +0100
martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> is this good or bad? hda2 is my swap partition:
This is bad (<1/6).
> /dev/hda2:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.99 seconds = 129.29 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.93 seconds = 2.92 MB/sec
/dev/hda1:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.77 seconds =166.23 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.33 seconds = 19.22 MB/sec
I've got a VIA 686a chipset, but using DMA here is dangerous. As I
wrote in the last message, I trashed the discs several times. Kernel
version 2.4.17. Maybe somebody else can tell how to improve this
safely. There might also be some hopefully safe changes you could make
in the BIOS.
--
Christoph Simon
ciccio@kiosknet.com.br
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