Civileme:
If you ever felt the need to post the results of these
tests on a webpage somewhere, that would be really
cool. I'd really enjoy being able to browse the
database of hard drives/controllers and see their
performance. That's probably a hefty project, though.
:(
--- civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2001 12:56, Todd Flinders wrote:
> > Yes, I'm especially interested in Civileme's tool
> he's
> > working on to install a Maxtor controller card. I
> > wonder if I should get that for RAID 0 instead of
> the
> > 3ware. 3ware has good support, but only goes up
> to
> > ATA 66.
> >
> > How important is ATA 100 anyway for RAID 0???
> Should
> > I even be concerned about that. I'm think that
> > because I have 2 ATA 100 HDs (IBMs), that it would
> be
> > a waste to get the 66 controller. Am I just being
> > foolish? Is the 66 fine?
> >
>
> My tests on ATA/66 and ATA/100 don't give you much
> to choose.
>
> the hdparm 64M read test seems to peak at slightly
> under 32 Mb/s for 66 and
> might go as high as 35Mb/s for ATA100. Both
> basically transfer data faster
> than it can spin onto or off the disk itself. My
> disk optimizer, which is
> based on a database, searches for a saddle-point
> where speed retuns diminish
> and noise immunity drops. The big surprise is that
> over half the ATA/100
> setups I have tested end up with an ATA/66 setting
> from the optimizer, and
> most of those actually run faster at 66 (no repeats
> for channel noise
> problems).
>
> You actually do not need my tool to install using
> the cheap Maxtor card--it
> just eliminates a complicated series of steps that
> are a pain in the ass for
> experts and probably smoke and mirrors for newbies.
>
> Civileme
>
>
> > --- Terry C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Please let us know as soon as you have the disk
> > > optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy
> to
> > > test
> > > it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100
> hard
> > > drive and I'm not getting the performance I
> should
> > > from it yet.
> > >
> > > TC
> > >
> > > --- Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Monday 21 May 2001 08:01, Irv wrote:
> > > > > From: Pelle Poluha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > >
> > > > > Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with
> > >
> > > Mandrake
> > >
> > > > 8
> > > >
> > > > > > Hello!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm working as a developer and needs a
> stable
> > > >
> > > > environment to develop and
> > > >
> > > > > > test deployments in. So I want to switch
> from
> > > >
> > > > Windows. I need stability
> > > >
> > > > > but
> > > > >
> > > > > > at the same time I want speed and a
> practical
> > >
> > > UI
> > >
> > > > (read GUI). I need a
> > > >
> > > > > smooth
> > > > >
> > > > > > file manager, easy access to OS, an
> editor,
> > > >
> > > > browser, email client (the
> > > >
> > > > > > usual I guess) and a C++ & Java IDE.
> > > > >
> > > > > That you'll have - but not with KDE 2, I'm
> > > >
> > > > afraid.
> > > >
> > > > > Even people with 1ghz / 256 mb machines have
> > > >
> > > > reported slowness.
> > > >
> > > > > My 300mhz / 128 meg pc is too slow to be
> usable,
> > > >
> > > > but not quite as
> > > >
> > > > > slow as you report - usually KDE takes 30-40
> > > >
> > > > seconds, and new apps
> > > >
> > > > > or windows 10 - 20 seconds.
> > > > >
> > > > > The good news is that KDE 1.x works just
> fine.
> > >
> > > Try
> > >
> > > > an older version of
> > > >
> > > > > Mandrake or SuSE or RedHat. They're all
> plenty
> > > >
> > > > fast.
> > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Irv
> > > > >
> > > > > > I opted for Mandrake because I've heard a
> lot
> > >
> > > of
> > >
> > > > good things about it. So
> > > >
> > > > > I
> > > > >
> > > > > > downloaded 8.0 last week and eagerly
> installed
> > > >
> > > > it on my AMD K333 machine
> > > >
> > > > > (96
> > > > >
> > > > > > mb, Riva TNT) on a 2 gig partition. As
> I've
> > > >
> > > > followed the development of
> > > >
> > > > > KDE
> > > > >
> > > > > > with great interest, I chose KDE as
> default
> > > >
> > > > windows manager (and it has
> > > >
> > > > > > KDevelop).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But it's really slow. Just loading
> Mandrake
> > > >
> > > > takes like 3-4 minutes. Some
> > > >
> > > > > of
> > > > >
> > > > > > it, I can understand. In the installation
> > > >
> > > > process, I included lots of
> > > >
> > > > > > apps and some of them gets loaded when
> > >
> > > Mandrake
> > >
> > > > starts (like MySql and
> > > >
> > > > > postgres,
> > > > >
> > > > > > probably some more servers). But that
> surely
> > > >
> > > > doesn't account for the
> > > >
> > > > > > immensly slow loading of the OS.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > And then I start KDE... It takes another
> 2-3
> > > >
> > > > minutes. And using it is
> > > >
> > > > > awful.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Loading a simple app might take 10-20 secs
> and
> > > >
> > > > everything just crawls. I
>
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