On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:41:14PM +0200, Pieter Dumon wrote: > On 7/27/06, Joerg Sonnenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >That's exactly what I expected. It needs almost no processing in > >userland, a little bit more in the kernel to push the IO through the > >various layer and most time waiting for the ATA controller. > > Ok, but is the cause of this extremely long waiting time a hardware > malfunction/misconfiguration ?
No, it is normal behaviour. See the calculation earlier from the thread. > >When you repeat the same process with softdep, it should be a lot faster, > >since > >it can write out many requests ordered. It would be even faster with a > >proper disk scheduler, but that's (still) a dream. > > I'll try, but it will be with the latest preview (1.7), not with the > 1.5.4 as I updated my kernel sources. That doesn't matter at all :-) Joerg
