On Sun, 14 May 2000, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
> 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.
Hrm. Something's VERY wrong there... We've reached 2.2.15 and 2.3.99-pre9
now; you might want to try them and see if there's any difference.
Also, the output of "/sbin/hdparm /dev/hda" under both would help - see if
a default setting has changed somewhere?
James.
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