31 Jan
2005
31 Jan
'05
13:55
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:48:55AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Saturday 29 January 2005 14:08, Pieter Hulshoff wrote: One difference, is that I assume that your swap space is on that disk. If you are swapping, you are going to have head movement that you do not see on /dev/hdc.
swap space is indeed on that disk (/dev/hda2), but as I indicated in one of the (many:) previous posts: I've done the same tests from a rescue cd, without any of the partitions mounted, and the results were the same. Also: /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda3 are not showing the same slowdown. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff