On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:24, Anarky wrote: > you know ... turns out this slowdown only happens when copying from > fat32 to fat32 ... when copying from fat32 to linux partition it's > constantly at about 9mb/second. Still, acording to your huge test > results my hdds might be somehow missconfigured, or is > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.87 seconds = 34.22 MB/sec > > normal for a 7200 rpm 20Gb Ibm drive?
I think that part of the problem IS in the fact that you're copying FAT32 to FAT32 - what happens when you copy it to ext3 or ReiserFS and then to FAT32? -- Mon Aug 11 10:30:00 EST 2003 10:30:00 up 7 days, 14:18, 1 user, load average: 2.38, 2.40, 2.25 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ & RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * If it's working, the diagnostics say it's fine. If it's not working, the diagnostics say it's fine. - A proposed addition to rules for realtime programming
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