27/04/2003-28/04/2003 @01:16:43 ^01:42:36

DISC SPEED!

Yesterday it was like this.

$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/hda3

/dev/hda3:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.11 seconds =115.32 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 35.53 seconds =  1.80 MB/sec

Today, I built a new kernel. And this happened.

$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/hda3

/dev/hda3:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.11 seconds =115.32 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.27 seconds = 28.19 MB/sec

Heh I wish I could speed up my disc by a factor of nearly 16 every day. Many thanks to Iain for telling me what was missing from the configuration.