On Thursday 12 February 2004 02:09 pm, TriKster Abacus wrote: > Searching forums.gentoo.org for "hdparm" I found that quite a lot > of people finding hdparm for the first time, are ecstatic over the > fact that they have scores of 200MB/sec! (While I am upset I am not > getting over 700MB/sec)
Please show output of hdparm both before and after starting X Clean reboot # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1672 MB in 2.00 seconds = 835.29 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.00 seconds = 56.66 MB/sec With X running: (kde) $ sudo /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1360 MB in 2.00 seconds = 678.75 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.03 seconds = 56.19 MB/sec killing X shows no improvement. I guess I'll spend some time trying to figure out what's going on 2.6.1-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux 1Gig pc2700 DDR Maxtor 80 Gid HDD w/8Meg buffer UDMA 133 -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
