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.

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