Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275102AbTHGELR (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:11:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275100AbTHGELR (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:11:17 -0400 Received: from fep03-svc.mail.telepac.pt ([194.65.5.202]:57317 "EHLO fep03-svc.mail.telepac.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275098AbTHGELM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:11:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3F31D205.2080008@vgertech.com> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 05:13:57 +0100 From: Nuno Silva Organization: VGER, LDA User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Buesch CC: insecure@mail.od.ua, linux kernel mailing list , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6] system is very slow during disk access References: <200308062052.10752.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> <200308062331.08020.insecure@mail.od.ua> <200308062247.17816.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> In-Reply-To: <200308062247.17816.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4706 Lines: 112 Hi! There are some references to: hdparm -a 512 /dev/hda. For some folks this improves fs performance. Does it work for you? Regards, Nuno Silva Michael Buesch wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 22:31, insecure wrote: > >>hdparm -T -t output? dmesg? lspci? /proc/ide stuff? > > > > root@lfs:/home/mb> hdparm -T -t /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.37 seconds =343.22 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.53 seconds = 41.81 MB/sec > > > dmesg doesn't show any unusual messages. > > > root@lfs:/home/mb> lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 05) > 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 05) > 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05) > 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 05) > 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 05) > 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 05) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti4400] (rev a2) > 03:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) > 03:02.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) > 03:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) > 03:04.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) > 03:0c.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) > 03:0c.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) > 03:0c.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) > > root@lfs:/home/mb> cat /proc/ide/drivers > ide-cdrom version 4.59-ac1 > ide-disk version 1.18 > > root@lfs:/home/mb> cat /proc/ide/hda/settings > name value min max mode > - ---- ----- --- --- ---- > acoustic 0 0 254 rw > address 0 0 2 rw > bios_cyl 79780 0 65535 rw > bios_head 16 0 255 rw > bios_sect 63 0 63 rw > bswap 0 0 1 r > current_speed 69 0 70 rw > failures 0 0 65535 rw > init_speed 69 0 70 rw > io_32bit 1 0 3 rw > keepsettings 0 0 1 rw > lun 0 0 7 rw > max_failures 1 0 65535 rw > multcount 16 0 16 rw > nice1 1 0 1 rw > nowerr 0 0 1 rw > number 0 0 3 rw > pio_mode write-only 0 255 w > slow 0 0 1 rw > unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw > using_dma 1 0 1 rw > wcache 0 0 1 rw > > > root@lfs:/home/mb> cat /proc/ide/hda/model > IC35L040AVVA07-0 > > > >>-- >>insecure > > > - -- > Regards Michael Buesch [ http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft ] > Penguin on this machine: Linux 2.6.0-test2 - i386 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/MWlSoxoigfggmSgRAjXOAJ9zyjWGS7G30ScpX+qff+xCY0AEzACfRVvQ > 42uPwSsmoPv5hte149jD398= > =XNT2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/