Re: IDE performance drop between 2.4.23 and 2.6.0

From: Vid Strpic
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 05:36:21 EST


On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:42:22PM +0100, Jean-Luc Fontaine wrote:
> on 2.4:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 168 MB in 2.01 seconds = 83.58 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 44 MB in 3.12 seconds = 14.10 MB/sec
> on 2.6:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 172 MB in 2.02 seconds = 84.95 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 34 MB in 3.08 seconds = 11.04 MB/sec
>
> Note the big drop of of 3 MB/sec on disk reads.

Consider yourself lucky :o)

I had a drop from 55Mb/s to around 35, 2.4.22->2.6.0-test&final.
Promise 20265, Seagate Barracuda 7.7200 80Gb, so nice ;)

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