Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

[Brian Schrock <bschrock@integralink.com>]

> debianoak:/home/nbp# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing cached reads:   1192 MB in  2.00 seconds = 595.20 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:    6 MB in  3.24 seconds =   1.85 MB/sec
> **
>
> That looks reasonable to me - very fast from the cache and a lot slower
> when it has to be buffered (on the hard drive, presumably). But, what do I
> know!?
>

That is not even close to reasonable. I have never seen buffered reads THAT 
bad.

 Timing cached reads:   1316 MB in  2.09 seconds = 629.02 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  158 MB in  3.02 seconds =  52.25 MB/sec

That is what I get when I run it on an HP d325.

Do this too if you want some more information on your drives.

hdparm -I /dev/hda

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Brian J. Schrock