Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (380 mails)

[Milan Gabor <milan.gabor@xxxxxxxxx>]

HI!

What kind of disks do you have?
I hace SATA from Hitachi and I only get this:

/dev/md0:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   1940 MB in  2.00 seconds = 969.03 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  172 MB in  3.02 seconds =  56.93 MB/sec

MIlan

Mark Horton wrote:

> Unfortunately I don't have a solution, but I was wondering about your 
> DDR400 with a 242 CPU.  My understanding is that this would run at 
> DDR333.  Do you have any idea if you are getting DDR400 speed?  I'm not 
> even sure how to determine this.  I have used hdparm -T for some sort of 
> rough estimate.  I'd be curious what your results are.
>
> Here's mine with a dual 240 DDR333 system:
>
> hdparm -T /dev/md0
>
> /dev/md0:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   2680 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1339.33 MB/sec
>
> This result is fairly average for my system... sometimes its lower 
> sometimes its higher.