Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

[Warren Dodge <warren.dodge@akamail.com>]

On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Roberto Sanchez wrote:

> My only complaint is that my hdparm performance seems to suck quite
> badly:
> # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.85 seconds = 69.19 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.53 seconds = 41.83 MB/sec
>
> Hmm.. suspicious results: probably not enough free memory for a proper 
> test.

40 MB / sec. is about right for current IDE drives.

Warren