Re: sync slowness. ext3 on VIA vt82c686b

From: khromy (khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx)
Date: Wed Jul 03 2002 - 11:42:14 EST


On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:56:46AM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
> ugh, this is very old, back in the 10G/platter days.
> considering that 60G/platter ship now, and all new disks
> are 30-40G/platter.
>
> out of curiosity, what does hdparm say about the low-level speed
> of this disk?

* hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.73 seconds =175.34 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.22 seconds = 28.83 MB/sec

* hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 multcount = 16 (on)
 I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq = 1 (on)
 using_dma = 1 (on)
 keepsettings = 0 (off)
 nowerr = 0 (off)
 readonly = 0 (off)
 readahead = 8 (on)
 geometry = 1868/255/63, sectors = 30015216, start = 0
 busstate = 1 (on)

* hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:

 Model=Maxtor 51536U3, FwRev=DA6207V0, SerialNo=K304R35C
 Config={ Fixed }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=30015216
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5

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