[ubuntu-in] reiserfs or ext3 (performance issues)

[Ravi Shanker]

Can you send me the output of 
hdparm -I /dev/sda

Let me see the enabled features of your hdd.

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 22:05 +0530, Prashanth Mohan wrote:
> Ravi Shanker wrote:
> > Actually right now I have 
> > Timing cached reads:   1444 MB in  2.00 seconds = 721.82 MB/sec
> > Timing buffered disk reads:   178 MB in  3.07 seconds =  58.24 MB/sec
> 
> Much worse
>  Timing cached reads:   722 MB in  2.00 seconds = 361.00 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:   72 MB in  3.08 seconds =  23.36 MB/sec
> 
> ^ ^ This was the best reading I got from a few tries. Its a Seagate 200
> gig hard disk running at 7200 rpm.
>