/dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.79 seconds =162.03 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.88 seconds = 22.22 MB/sec On my Athlon Classic 600MHz system using an ASUS KV7 board with 7200 rpm UDMA 100 (running at 66) Western Digital IDE drives. Kernel is 2.4.2 -- stock Redhat. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Layer" <blayer at qwest.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Poor performance of AMD 1 Ghz? > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:14:47 -0500 > "Tom Hudak" <thudak at sistina.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:41:12AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > > >Anyone else seeing terrible performance on AMD Athlong processors? > > My dad's 1Ghz is blazing fast. > > I've got a Duron 700 @ 850Mhz - this is the '200Mhz' FSB part, with 512MB > of PC133 RAM on an ABIT KT-7 RAID motherboard. It absolutely screams, it > is the all-around fastest desktop I have ever used on any regular basis. > > Disk performance is very acceptable too... (hdparm is run from an xterm in > this case) > > root at Homer:/home/UserX/gnut# hdparm -Tt /dev/hde > > /dev/hde: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.21 seconds = 28.96 MB/sec > > > > > -.bill.layer.- > > -.those who are talking don't know, and those who know aren't talking.- > > -.frogtown.- -.minnesota.- -.u.s.a.- > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >