Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-10-07 Thread lee
KS writes: > In the BIOS, the SATA ports are set to IDE. Should they be set to AHCI > instead? (third option is RAID). AHCI When set to IDE, only a smaller feature set will be supported. -- Hallowed are the Debians! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-22 Thread Pertti Kosunen
On 22.9.2014 4:10, KS wrote: In the BIOS, the SATA ports are set to IDE. Should they be set to AHCI instead? (third option is RAID). AHCI should be better. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
On 21/09/14 07:41 PM, KS wrote: > > The hdparm shows much normal buffered disk reads (although only 75% of > the Intel) but would this setting stick during reboots? > Update: moved the SATA cable from SATA5 to SATA2. and now hdparm shows udma6 as active mode and buffered disk reads are around 37

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
On 21/09/14 07:08 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi KS, > > Over time, SSD's get, for want of a better word, fragmented. Especially > if they endure a lot of writes. > > Many times, this "fragmentation" can be corrected. See this: > > https://sites.google.com/site/lightrush/random-1/howtoconfigureex

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:23:36 -0400 KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently reinstalled my system on two SDD that I got (Intel 530 > 240GB -f/w updated and a Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB - f/w > 520ABFF0 (latest 525ABFF0)). I have the main system running on the > Intel SSD (LVM) and a partition o

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
On 21/09/14 06:23 PM, KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently reinstalled my system on two SDD that I got (Intel 530 240GB > -f/w updated and a Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB - f/w 520ABFF0 > (latest 525ABFF0)). I have the main system running on the Intel SSD > (LVM) and a partition on the Kingston

SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
Hi all, I recently reinstalled my system on two SDD that I got (Intel 530 240GB -f/w updated and a Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB - f/w 520ABFF0 (latest 525ABFF0)). I have the main system running on the Intel SSD (LVM) and a partition on the Kingston for my VMs. Off lately, I have noticed that