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From: Tommy Vercetti <vercetti@zlew.org>
To: "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21.1 - 97% wait time on IDE operations
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:22:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705271222.30169@gj-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0705260907g4e37d4avcc652d2b7368edd5@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 26 May 2007 18:07, Ray Lee wrote:
> On 5/26/07, Tommy Vercetti <vercetti@zlew.org> wrote:
> > in terms of driver, what do you mean ?
>
> The software driver that handles the specific chipset for that drive.
> The thing that shows up when you do an lsmod, assuming you have the
> driver compiled as a module.

root@puppet:~# dmesg |grep -i ide
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1840-0x1847, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1848-0x184f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

it's compiled in. 
you reckon I should use something else for this platform ? 

> > /dev/hda:
> >  Timing cached reads:   732 MB in  2.00 seconds = 365.74 MB/sec
> >  Timing buffered disk reads:   76 MB in  3.00 seconds =  25.31 MB/sec
>
> That looks fine. Your filesystem may just be very fragmented. I'm not
> familiar with how reiser3 filesystems age, so if you've had the system
> installed for quite some time, it may be time to back it up and
> reinstall. Dunno.
yeah, and they say unix FSes don't need defragmentation.... my bottom...

-- 
Vercetti

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-27 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-26 13:05 Tommy Vercetti
2007-05-26 13:52 ` Paolo Ornati
2007-05-26 14:07   ` Tommy Vercetti
2007-05-26 15:56     ` Paolo Ornati
2007-05-26 14:39 ` Julio M. Merino Vidal
2007-05-26 15:13 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-26 15:46   ` Tommy Vercetti
2007-05-26 16:07     ` Ray Lee
2007-05-27 10:22       ` Tommy Vercetti [this message]
2007-05-27 12:02         ` Alan Cox
2007-05-27 18:17           ` Clemens Koller
2007-05-28  9:51           ` Benny Amorsen
2007-05-28 19:22             ` Alan Cox
2007-05-26 15:23 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-05-29 20:32 ` Bill Davidsen

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