low breezy hard disk performances

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:53:21PM +0200, The Saltydog wrote:
> On 9/15/05, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > hdparm -tT measurements are not very compelling; a bonnie++ test on hoary
> > and breezy on the same hardware would be better.  I've only seen one such
> > test before, but it confirms that performance is at least as good in that
> > case.
> 
> I will try to do bonnie test, but not considering benchmarks, I have
> my Breezy really sitting on the floor!! I have to wait 10 seconds to
> open a terminal or gedit, and more than a minute for OpenOffice...

Sounds like you're lacking DMA.

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 - mdz