From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9oHR-00058Z-Jv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:55:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GIpf1m000133; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:51:41 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GIfOla031984 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:41:24 GMT Received: from [24.67.28.241] (helo=badcomputer.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9o4B-0007EG-CA for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:41:23 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.102] (helo=virgo.badcomputer.org) by badcomputer.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9jMq-0000Xj-Cf for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 05:40:20 -0800 From: darren kirby Organization: Badcomputer Org. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness... Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:41:18 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <43F492F9.7030803@comcast.net> <200602160943.25294.robert@sixthings.com> <43F4A922.1090602@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <43F4A922.1090602@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1769904.JEKbr6CJUU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602161041.22597.bulliver@badcomputer.org> X-Archives-Salt: 8b8be4ca-cd1c-4b1b-92eb-4db01b3d306f X-Archives-Hash: d7a06bda6a1c674627f3cc7514526885 --nextPart1769904.JEKbr6CJUU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline quoth the Jeff: > > See here: > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 3016 MB in 2.00 seconds =3D 1507.91 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 3.68 seconds =3D 1.09 MB/sec > > Horribly slow! This machine should be blazing fast, with the 7200 rpm > 200 GB hard drive, AMD64 3500+ processor, 1.5 MB RAM, and very modern > motherboard to compliment. > Can we see output of "hdparm -i /dev/hda". I am trying to saee if you have= =20 DMA enabled. Your timings are horribly slow. Do you have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATIIXP enabled in your kernel? =2Dd =2D-=20 darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." =2D Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 --nextPart1769904.JEKbr6CJUU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD9MdSwPD5Cr/3CJgRAh73AJ9LYa0jmv8ufaTT/0EVaouYpQ7QCwCg1jGo r6UxFrFVa8g1+XJ4+1nHRXU= =DrO6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1769904.JEKbr6CJUU-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list