Re: [LIH] Re: Re: hdparm with kernel2.4.1

[Kingsly John]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

 |I got different results on office machine. Buffered cache reads were rougly 
 |5% higher for partitions than the disk. Buffered disk reads were in fact 
 |slower in one case and same in other two..
 |
 | Puzzled...

Been wondering about that too... but I think it maybe because of
fragmentation.( when fsck runs.. it shows it as x% non-contiguous)

more non-contiguous == slower speeds.

Kingsly

                .:: Kingsly John                ICQ 14787510 ::.
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            .:: Linux 2.4.3 #9 Mon Apr 23 11:52:01 IST 2001 i686 ::.
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           `:. Posted to the list on Mon Apr 23 18:54:55 IST 2001 .:'


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