low breezy hard disk performances

[Trent Lloyd]

Find out what module is being used for your IDE chipset on hoary and
breezy.

You can use the live cds to try this out?

Trent

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:04:31AM +0200, The Saltydog wrote:
> Before upgrading to breezy I have saved my disk timings from running
> sudo hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> 
> This was the timing on Hoary:
> 
> /dev/hda:
> Timing cached reads: 2980 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1488.74 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.03 seconds = 57.49 MB/sec
> 
> and this is the current timing in Breezy:
> 
> /dev/hda:
> Timing cached reads: 2832 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1415.51 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 40 MB in 3.01 seconds = 13.29 MB/sec
> 
> 
> disk info:
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Model=Maxtor 6E040L0, FwRev=NAR61590, SerialNo=E1B04FFE
>  Config={ Fixed }
>  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
>  BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
>  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78165360
>  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
>  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
>  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
>  AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
>  Drive conforms to: (null):
> 
> and CPU info:
> 
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 15
> model           : 2
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
> stepping        : 9
> cpu MHz         : 2594.690
> cache size      : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 2
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
> xtpr
> bogomips        : 5144.57
> 
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-- 
Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.