Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753176AbXE0KW1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 May 2007 06:22:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751345AbXE0KWV (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 May 2007 06:22:21 -0400 Received: from v6.netlin.pl ([62.121.136.6]:44831 "EHLO pointblue.com.pl" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751300AbXE0KWU (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 May 2007 06:22:20 -0400 From: Tommy Vercetti To: "Ray Lee" Subject: Re: 2.6.21.1 - 97% wait time on IDE operations Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:22:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: LKML References: <200705261505.38109@gj-laptop> <200705261746.01568@gj-laptop> <2c0942db0705260907g4e37d4avcc652d2b7368edd5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0705260907g4e37d4avcc652d2b7368edd5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705271222.30169@gj-laptop> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1601 Lines: 39 On Saturday 26 May 2007 18:07, Ray Lee wrote: > On 5/26/07, Tommy Vercetti wrote: > > in terms of driver, what do you mean ? > > The software driver that handles the specific chipset for that drive. > The thing that shows up when you do an lsmod, assuming you have the > driver compiled as a module. root@puppet:~# dmesg |grep -i ide Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1840-0x1847, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1848-0x184f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 it's compiled in. you reckon I should use something else for this platform ? > > /dev/hda: > > Timing cached reads: 732 MB in 2.00 seconds = 365.74 MB/sec > > Timing buffered disk reads: 76 MB in 3.00 seconds = 25.31 MB/sec > > That looks fine. Your filesystem may just be very fragmented. I'm not > familiar with how reiser3 filesystems age, so if you've had the system > installed for quite some time, it may be time to back it up and > reinstall. Dunno. yeah, and they say unix FSes don't need defragmentation.... my bottom... -- Vercetti - 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/