Re: Hard drive performance, new kernel?
At 2002-05-13T02:16:41Z, Matthew Daubenspeck <matt@oddprocess.org> writes:
> I have tried multiple things to speed up my hard drive access, and the
> best I can seem to squeeze out of a 7200RPM 40GB HDD is 23 MB/s. That just
> doesn't sound right... I have another box with another linux distro with
> an ATA66 5400RPM drive that gets 40 MB/s without even tweaking anything.
>
> The only possibility I can thing of is that I never told the debian
> installer what IDE controller I was using, and it is just loading a
> generic. Is this possible?
More likely is that your Debian box is reporting accurate transfer rates,
while your other Linux box is spitting out rather wild numbers. 40MB/s? On
a 5400RPM drive? That's not terribly likely, except in the situation where
you're repeatedly reading the same blocks in many consecutive transaction.
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Kirk Strauser
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