On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 20:52, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 24.02.2004 schrieb Don Levey um 02:30: > > > > So... I've got DMA enabled, Multiple I/O, EIDE 32-bit and lookahead > > enabled in my /etc/sysconfig/harddisks file. Running that hdparm line > > gives me: > > > > /dev/hdb: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 1204 MB in 2.00 seconds = 601.49 MB/sec > > Timing buffered disk reads: 96 MB in 3.00 seconds = 31.97 MB/sec > > > > ...clearly *not* fast. This is a Maxtor Diamond ATA 120Gb drive, > > 7200rpm, on an ASUS A7V8X-X mb. I'm running FC1 with a 2.6.3 kernel > > from kernel.org. Any suggestions for speeding up my I/O (or more info > > to provide)? > > > > TIA, -Don > > Just let hands off /etc/sysconfig/harddisks. I had been following the suggestion in Linux Journal about those settings. Based upon the above, I re-commented the lines in question and restarted the machine. Now I get: /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1128 MB in 2.00 seconds = 563.80 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 110 MB in 3.08 seconds = 35.77 MB/sec ...which leads me to believe that what I had done didn't have much effect in any event. Is this what I can expect on my machine, or is there something else I should do? -Don p.s. I forgot to mention before: I'm running an AMD Athlon 2600+ (1.91GHz).
