Re: SATA drive performance seems low

Dne, 12. 12. 2009 07:14:28 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): I guess my first question is, why is the performance going through the Linux system cache buffers ~40% lower than doing a --direct read? Going through the Linux buffers is normal system operation. Second question is how do I

SATA drive performance seems low

I have a new single platter 7200rpm 500GB WD SATA drive connected to a new SiI3512 based PCI card (yes, 33Mhz PCI). Host is a headless server, dual ~500MHz Intel Mendocino CPUs, 384MB PC100, kernel 2.6.31.1 compiled by me from kernel.org sources _the Debian way_, very low system load, over half