-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear .debs,
I'm a minimalist and rolled my own kernel. It was absolutely bare bones and that had a noticable effect on hard disk performance. So I tinkered around a bit with kernel options and tested performance with hdparm -tT. Now I'd like to know what all those numbers mean and if they are reasonable (for my Dynabook SS S4/275PNHW). I've repeated all tests five times and dropped outliers. With my initial kernel I get ~110 MB/sec for buffer-cache reads ~ 2 MB/sec for buffered disk reads After tinkering I get ~ 55 MB/sec for buffer-cache reads ~ 14 MB/sec for buffered disk reads Question 1: Which of the two is "better" and why? Question 2: Can I do better than this? I still think hard disk performance is a bit slow but that may be just me. PS: I'm no hardware buff (in case you hadn't noticed :-) - -- Olaf Meeuwissen GnuPG key: 91114EAF/C3E1 2D40 C7CC AEB2 FB15 8BDF 60C2 5B3F 9111 4EAF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE92MDHYMJbP5ERTq8RAr4DAJwNHcnXELDWh1xG/mltKBBXBwmsLACgiD4P jhbC3H9zTJ+qkEuPmIjyDbE= =UYf1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
