I've been following this thread and, since I haven't 'played' with this before, I just ran a 'hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 >hdparm' so I can compare my values with those shown here. My results are in the attach.
I was very suprised to see that, even that for buffer-cache I got 130.61 MB/sec, I got 2.10 MB/sec for buffered disk!!! Any ideas? Regards P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into mutt/vi when sending mail? -- "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ricardo R. M. Diz Embedded Systems Lab Electric and Electronic Engineering @ Universidade de Coimbra Portugal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/hda5: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.98 seconds =130.61 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 30.53 seconds = 2.10 MB/sec
