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From: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
To: spike@superweb.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE Harddrive Performance
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:22:15 -0800
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On December 20, 2001 09:10, Brendan Pike wrote:
> [root@spikes spike]# /sbin/hdparm -T /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  3.89 seconds = 32.90 MB/sec

phalynx:/home/bodnar42# hdparm -T /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.63 seconds =203.17 MB/sec

Either you have an old computer with absolutely horrible memory bandwidth, or 
something is really wrong here.

-Ryan
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