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Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine



Johann Koenig wrote:
On Friday April  9 at 06:42pm
Warren Dodge <warren.dodge@akamail.com> wrote:


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 M1B/sec

Hmm.. suspicious results: probably not enough free memory for a
proper test.


Mine has 768mb of ddr2100 (1x256, 1x512)


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


Perhaps for buffered disk reads, but certainly not for buffer-cache
reads:

mental-graffiti:/home/jkoenig# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   588 MB in  2.00 seconds = 294.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  136 MB in  3.02 seconds =  45.03 MB/sec

Disk is a Maxtor 8mb 160gb 7200rpm, on a VIA chipset:
mental-graffiti:/proc/ide# lspci
...<snip>...
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
...</snip>...

Not sure if its UDMA 100 or 133

Your is probably UDMA 133.  Mine is a Maxtor Diamond Max 120 GB, and
it is UDMA 133.  My other box, with a Western Digital UDMA 100 drive,
gets like 800-900 MB/s in buffer-cache reads.

I am really stumped on this.

-Roberto Sanchez

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