On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 07:54:46PM +0530, Ashwin D wrote:
>On Friday 23 February 2001 10:15, you wrote:
>> Hi Gaurav,
>>
>> I don't know the reason behind your dma_intr error, but on my seagate 17GB
>> HDD I get very poor hdparm results.
>>
>> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.95 seconds = 70 MB/sec
>> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 12.59 seconds = 4.00 MB/sec
>>
>Hi
>after a helter skelter search everywhere, this is what iam told (not
>necessarily what is right)
>a) on some chipsets hdparm results are broken
>b) download bonnie (search freshmeat)
>c) run the bonnie -s nnn (n>RAM, say 200)
>d) compare bonnie results under the two kernels e.g. 2.2 and 2.4
>
Ashwin I will try bonnie.
>I use hdparm -d1c1m16X66pW1 /dev/hd? (?=hard disk) for best results under
>kernel 2.4.x.
I get the same hdparm speeds on both kernel 2.2 as well as 2.4 :-)
I will try bonie on both. Default potato kernel 2.2.17 and 2.4.1.
Thanks
Regards
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V. S. DEMPO & CO. LTD., PANAJI-GOA
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