Slow disk I/O - was Re: Seeking Help

Wed Jan 23 15:02:23 UTC 2013

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On 01/23/2013 08:27 AM, geoff at thebakershome.net wrote:
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> Here is the Paste Bin: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/1561660/
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> If anyone can see anything of note, please let me know.

Here is a bare minimum teat, which I would do first:
1) go to BIOS setup and reset it to Factory defaults (or similar);
2) still in BIOS setup, set SATA mode to AHCI;
3) boot from a Live CD/USB and run `hddparm -tT <dev>`, where <dev> are
your disk "drives" (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.).

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Sarunas Burdulis
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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