Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-13 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote: it has been great. Extremeley quiet (I chose a 600 MHz fanless Eden CPU Ding. Cyrix Cpu, and like all cyrix's, low in performance(which is the whole point of this cpu being low power) Memory bus is likely slow to go with it. # hdparm -tT /dev/hda

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:15:00AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I am really stumped on this. Just a random sparkle of the neurons, but have you somehow got your FSB clocked really slow in the BIOS? What sort of figures does memtest86 report for memory access speed? That wasn't it.

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Johann Koenig wrote: On Friday April 9 at 06:42pm Warren Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: My only complaint is that my hdparm performance seems to suck quite badly: # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.85

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-10 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:15:00AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Johann Koenig wrote: On Friday April 9 at 06:42pm Warren Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: My only complaint is that my hdparm performance seems to suck quite badly:

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:15:00AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Your is probably UDMA 133. Mine is a Maxtor Diamond Max 120 GB, and it is UDMA 133. My other box, with a Western Digital UDMA 100 drive, gets like 800-900 MB/s in buffer-cache reads. I am really stumped on this.

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-10 Thread Johann Koenig
On Saturday April 10 at 11:15am Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disk is a Maxtor 8mb 160gb 7200rpm, on a VIA chipset: mental-graffiti:/proc/ide# lspci ...snip... :00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE

Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I just recently replaced my server (a venerable Pentium Pro 200) with a MiniITX VIA-based box that is about 25% smaller than my VCR. So far, it has been great. Extremeley quiet (I chose a 600 MHz fanless Eden CPU for nearly all passive cooling) and small enough to fit almost anywhere. My only

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-09 Thread Warren Dodge
On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: My only complaint is that my hdparm performance seems to suck quite badly: # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.85 seconds = 69.19 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.53 seconds = 41.83 MB/sec

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-09 Thread Johann Koenig
On Friday April 9 at 06:42pm Warren Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: My only complaint is that my hdparm performance seems to suck quite badly: # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.85 seconds =