Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Hamish Marson <hamish@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:58:56
Message-Id: 4357F672.1020701@travellingkiwi.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations by Chris Frederick
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4 Chris Frederick wrote:
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6 > James Pattinson wrote:
7 >
8 >> <snip> Could some of you perhaps run hdparm -Tt on your root disk
9 >> and let me know what you get? I get great performance off the
10 >> disk but the cached read speed is about half the speed of my P4
11 >> box:
12 >>
13 >> amd64~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
14 >>
15 >> /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1532 MB in 2.00 seconds =
16 >> 765.95 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 98 MB in 3.01
17 >> seconds = 32.58 MB/sec
18 >>
19 >> pentium4~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
20 >>
21 >> /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2296 MB in 2.00 seconds =
22 >> 1147.03 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 44 MB in 3.02
23 >> seconds = 14.56 MB/sec
24 >
25 >
26 > AMD64 3.0 GHz: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1300 MB in 2.00
27 > seconds = 649.45 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 84 MB in
28 > 3.02 seconds = 27.80 MB/sec
29 >
30 > DUAL Zeon 2.6 GHz: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 2196 MB in
31 > 2.00 seconds = 1096.52 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB
32 > in 3.00 seconds = 46.61 MB/sec
33 >
34 > Looks like my AMD64 setup is getting about half of my Zeon system
35 > performance. Also curious why your P4 buffered disk reads are so
36 > low compared to mine.
37 >
38 > Chris Frederick
39 >
40
41 Hmmm... I've only for an AMD64 3200 (Ah.. 2.2GHz Winchester core
42 socket 939)... And this is what I get. Signifcantly faster than your
43 3000. (Do you mean amd64 3000? Or a real 3GHz amd64?)
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47 damned ~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
48
49 /dev/hda:
50 Timing cached reads: 3636 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1817.89 MB/sec
51 Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.01 seconds = 35.24 MB/sec
52 damned ~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/hdb
53
54 /dev/hdb:
55 Timing cached reads: 3428 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1713.89 MB/sec
56 Timing buffered disk reads: 120 MB in 3.04 seconds = 39.52 MB/sec
57 damned ~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
58
59 /dev/sda:
60 Timing cached reads: 3200 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1599.90 MB/sec
61 Timing buffered disk reads: 164 MB in 3.00 seconds = 54.59 MB/sec
62 damned ~ #
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