John Summerfield wrote:
Konstantin Svist wrote:
Konstantin Svist wrote:
I have an older laptop (HP ze4400 series) with a PATA hard drive.
When I check hdparm -T /dev/sda in Fedora 7 or 8, it shows me
performance of ~180MB/sec
When I use a boot CD (gparted/clonezilla) to check the speed (by the
way, it uses the old style /dev/hdc, instead) - it tells me the
performance is upward of 400MB/sec
The buffered speed seems about the same in either case at ~30MB/sec.
(I've tried enabling/disabling various settings via hdparm, while in
boot CD mode)
Why is this happening and is there a way to fix it (without
reverting to /dev/hdc)?
*bump* since I got no replies from last time
Just ran another test: in F8, I get 123MB/s on cached reads, 28.55MB
on buffered reads. When booted into Knoppix 5.1.0, cached reads say
210MB/s, and buffered reads fluctuate between 15MB/s and 20MB/s.
For general performance, cached performance is pretty irrelevant,
you're still constrained to the bus speed at best, and the general
ability of the hardware (ATA motherboard electronics included) in
general.
I don't have the foggiest idea of what an HP ze4400 is; depending on
its age your speed of 28.55MB is pretty good.
I agree that cached performance doesn't matter all that much, normally.
However, it's a pretty large drop in performance - and I'm trying to
figure out why it happened. I wouldn't be worried about it if it were
off 5-10% - but it's just about HALF of the old value.
Also (and I'm not sure about this...) this might indicate some problem
with latency (which *would* be pretty important, especially if it's this
much).
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