On Saturday 28 June 2003 08:36 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello, > > Previously hdparm (-Tt) 5.3 gave me results of 752/41. Today I upgraded > to hdparm 5.4 and I get the following results! > > $ hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 2912 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1454.55 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 120 MB in 3.01 seconds = 39.91 MB/sec > > Is it telling the truth or am I seeing things? If this is true then my > hard drive has become twice as fast within the time it took to perform > the upgrade. > > What is going on here?
I can almost garuntee you that your disks are not doing buffer-cache reads at 1.42 gigabytes per second (as the output reads). Your disk reads look normal, though. -- Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com GnuPG Key ID: A79A45668240AB6C
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