On my system I get: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec
Is this good, bad, or average? cheers Brian On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 12:42, civileme wrote: > J. Craig Woods wrote: > > >David wrote: > > > >>Hello experts, > >> > >>Last evening I installed MD8.2, and reformatted my / and /usr > >>partitions as xfs. Now, just about everything seems to be running slower > >>than MD8.1 on ext3 partitions. > >> > >>Did I smoke too much grass in my younger years or is this a reality? > >> > >>Is there something I maybe did wrong? > >> > >>Is there a check of some type that I could perform to test this? > >> > >>What could be causing this? > >> > >>confused > >>Dave > >> > > > >Well the truth be known, you probably did smoke to much grass. But as > >long as you did not hang out with Owsley, you should be ok... > > > >Try running hdparm -tT /dev/hdx (where x is your device) to get a > >comparison of speed on your different mount points. > > > >(now there would be no one here that would know Owsley, right?) > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > actually hdparm -t /dev/hdx is more informative. The capital T > basically measures the bandwidth of your memory. > > And if you are using software RAID, then it is less than informative. > It works OK for RAID1 and 4 but not so well for 0 or 5, especially not > for 0, where it is possible to exceed the speed of a single disk. > > But my measurements on creation and updating show XFS on a par or > slightly better than ext2 which is itself 50% faster than ext3. (Yes, > ext3 is like 66% the speed of ext2). > > Civileme > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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