Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > Overall, though, I didn't notice enough of a speed difference between
> > the drive on UDMA/66 and the drive on a "normal" interface to want to
> > fight with it anymore. I'm perfectly happy with the drive on a normal
> > interface.
>
> With it on,
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.75 seconds =73.14 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.91 seconds = 2.92 MB/sec
>
> I'm not gonna switch it just to show you guys, but on hde cache reads hit
> around 125-150, and buffered gets up to about 5-10. A mighty big
> improvment, but....
Something's mighty wrong with those readings Axalon... Here's my 18G WD:
[root@tippy /root]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.73 seconds =73.99 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.81 seconds =16.80 MB/sec
That's with:
/dev/hda:
multcount = 8 (on)
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 128 (on)
geometry = 2193/255/63, sectors = 35239680, start = 0
Like I said, I'm mighty happy with these readings... just how much
faster do I need Netscape to launch?? :)
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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