Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Francisco Perez <fperez@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:25:18
Message-Id: 43541635.1000405@albrookdata.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations by James Pattinson
1 localhost ~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
2
3 /dev/sda:
4 Timing cached reads: 2800 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1399.91 MB/sec
5 Timing buffered disk reads: 162 MB in 3.02 seconds = 53.64 MB/sec
6
7 Frank
8
9 James Pattinson wrote:
10 > Hi
11 >
12 > Thanks all for your recommendations! It's nice to know there are some
13 > good amd64 boards out there. perhaps I've just had bad luck with these
14 > APIC problems so far.
15 >
16 > Could some of you perhaps run hdparm -Tt on your root disk and let me
17 > know what you get? I get great performance off the disk but the cached
18 > read speed is about half the speed of my P4 box:
19 >
20 > amd64~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
21 >
22 > /dev/sda:
23 > Timing cached reads: 1532 MB in 2.00 seconds = 765.95 MB/sec
24 > Timing buffered disk reads: 98 MB in 3.01 seconds = 32.58 MB/sec
25 >
26 > pentium4~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
27 >
28 > /dev/sda:
29 > Timing cached reads: 2296 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1147.03 MB/sec
30 > Timing buffered disk reads: 44 MB in 3.02 seconds = 14.56 MB/sec
31 >
32 > Cheers!
33 >
34 > James
35 --
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net>