* Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But! I used hdparm -t solely, 2.6 was always ~5% faster than 2.4. But > using -Tt slowed down the hd speed by about 30%. So it looks like some > scheduler interaction, perhaps the memory timing loops gets it marked > as batch or something?
to check whether that could be the case, could you try: nice -n -20 hdparm -t /dev/hdc does that produce different results? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/