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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:43:32
Message-Id: 200510180142.28581.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations by James Pattinson
1 On Monday 17 October 2005 20:59, James Pattinson wrote:
2 > Hi
3 >
4 > Thanks all for your recommendations! It's nice to know there are some
5 > good amd64 boards out there. perhaps I've just had bad luck with these
6 > APIC problems so far.
7 >
8 > Could some of you perhaps run hdparm -Tt on your root disk and let me
9 > know what you get? I get great performance off the disk but the cached
10 > read speed is about half the speed of my P4 box:
11 >
12 > amd64~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
13 >
14 > /dev/sda:
15 > Timing cached reads: 1532 MB in 2.00 seconds = 765.95 MB/sec
16 > Timing buffered disk reads: 98 MB in 3.01 seconds = 32.58 MB/sec
17 >
18
19 you are sloooow.
20 ddr400 dualchannel:
21
22 hdparm -tT /dev/hda
23
24 /dev/hda:
25 Timing cached reads: 2884 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1441.91 MB/sec
26 Timing buffered disk reads: 134 MB in 3.01 seconds = 44.55 MB/sec
27
28 Yes, that is an IDE disk
29
30 ;)
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