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Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?



On May 01 2005, s. keeling wrote:
> You must have the slowest hard drive in existence.  My 700 Mhz PIII does
> a kernel compile in 18 min.

What about this one:

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scsi0 : MESH
  Vendor: QUANTUM   Model: FIREBALL_TM3200S  Rev: 300N
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor: MATSHITA  Model: CD-ROM CR-8008    Rev: 8.0h
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 6281856 512-byte hdwr sectors (3216 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 6281856 512-byte hdwr sectors (3216 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: [mac] sda1 sda2 sda3
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
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And I get:

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chagas:~# hdparm -tT /dev/sda 

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   168 MB in  2.01 seconds =  83.64 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   10 MB in  3.03 seconds =   3.30 MB/sec
chagas:~# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   168 MB in  2.01 seconds =  83.72 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   10 MB in  3.01 seconds =   3.33 MB/sec
chagas:~# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   168 MB in  2.01 seconds =  83.72 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   10 MB in  3.07 seconds =   3.25 MB/sec
chagas:~# 
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Donations of unused 168-pin 5V EDO DIMM cards are more than welcome, as I
can't get anything like this where I live. :-( The memory could, at least,
act like a cache. :-/


Thanks, Rogério Brito.

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Rogério Brito : rbrito@ime.usp.br : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito
Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de
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