SLOW fscks in 2.3.99-pre6

From: Pasi Kärkkäinen (pk@edu.joroinen.fi)
Date: Sun May 14 2000 - 15:23:09 EST


fscks seem to take ages on 2.3.99-pre6. Harddisks activity-led blinks only
now and then.. Under 2.2.15pre17 fscks run at the "normal" speed
(ie. couple of minutes max, under 2.3.99-pre6 it takes hours to
complete..)

This happens at the boot-time.

I tried 'hdparm -tT /dev/hda' also under both of these kernels:

2.2.15pre17:
/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.25 seconds =102.40 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.88 seconds = 22.22 MB/sec

2.3.99-pre6:
/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.27 seconds =100.79 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 15.76 seconds = 4.06 MB/sec

Any ideas?

I have PIII 450Mhz on Abit BF6 (BX-chipset).
the harddisk is: hda: IBM-DPTA-372730, ATA DISK drive

Kernels are compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3.

If you need any additional information, I can provide it.

Thanks for your help!

- Pasi Kärkkäinen
       
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