From: Andre Tomt <lkml@tomt.net>
To: Nuno Alexandre <na@imaginere.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicklas Bondesson <nicke@nicke.nu>
Subject: Re: IDE-RAID Drive Performance
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:00:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073138426.8863.33.camel@slurv.pasop.tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031230122119.1566247a@Genbox>
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:21, Nuno Alexandre wrote:
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 1320 MB in 2.00 seconds = 659.44 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.02 seconds = 46.40 MB/sec
>
> Using:
> -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 -W1 -A1 -k1 -X70 -a 8192
Wow, slow down for a minute. Most IDE chipset drivers does a excellent
job at autotuning the max *safe settings* for your drive/chipset
combination. Mucking around with hdparm parameters blindfolded will only
cause you grief in form of data loss and system instability sooner than
later.
Usually when one gets into performance problems with IDE in Linux, the
chipset specific driver is not enabled, making the system fallback to
the generic driver - OR the drive and controller combination is
considered unsafe with faster settings.
Without any user intervention at all, my Seagate 7200 120G's does 55MB/s
in the infamious hdparm test, on a VIA KT266 based board, both in
2.6.1-rc1 and 2.4.23.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-03 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-30 10:44 Nicklas Bondesson
2003-12-30 11:21 ` Nuno Alexandre
2004-01-02 8:19 ` Bob
2004-01-03 14:00 ` Andre Tomt [this message]
2004-01-03 15:58 ` Nicklas Bondesson
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