Hey people.
My wife has become a Linux convert (woohoo!), but unfortunately I'm having
a problem getting decent performance out of her computer. She has a P-III 800,
which is faster than my 450, but the harddrive performance is a bottleneck on
her whole system. It's horribly slow.
The following is from the boot messages:
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: FUJITSU MPF3102AT, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1402, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: FUJITSU MPF3102AT, 9773MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1245/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Her harddrive is supposedly Ultra-DMA capable, but I got a bunch of errors
trying to get dma enabled with hdparm. Looks like it's still not set.
poohbear:/proc/ide/ide0/hda# cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings
name value min max mode
---- ----- --- --- ----
bios_cyl 1245 0 65535 rw
bios_head 255 0 255 rw
bios_sect 63 0 63 rw
breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw
bswap 0 0 1 r
file_readahead 124 0 2097151 rw
io_32bit 0 0 3 rw
keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
max_kb_per_request 64 1 127 rw
multcount 0 0 8 rw
nice1 1 0 1 rw
nowerr 0 0 1 rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
slow 0 0 1 rw
unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw
using_dma 0 0 1 rw
She has lots of swap space...
/dev/hda5 1 63 505984+ 82 Linux swap
...and a rockin' CPU...
poohbear:/proc# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 801.822
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 3
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 psn mmx fxsr xmm
bogomips : 1599.07
Her mem stats look about the same as mine.
poohbear:/proc# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 112056 109576 2480 15980 2292 6672
-/+ buffers/cache: 100612 11444
Swap: 505976 240620 265356
But I can't get this sucker working properly.
poohbear:/proc/ide/ide0/hda# cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model
FUJITSU MPF3102AT
Any help getting some decent performance out of this thing?
Much appreciated,
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08
"Pretty soon, massive bloat is the industry standard and everyone is using
huge, buggy programs not even their developers can love."
-Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming
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