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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:36:33
Message-Id: 1199752521.31834.16.camel@rattus
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access by Wayn0
1 Check the options for your chipset in the kernel - look at device
2 drivers and ata/... devices. Looks like its just defaulted to the
3 minimum as it hasnt seen what chipset you are using.
4
5 Also consider moving to libata - seems better where I have tried it.
6
7 BillK
8
9
10 On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 02:26 +0200, Wayn0 wrote:
11 > Hi All,
12 >
13 > I have installed gentoo on my laptop recently and I am having a huge
14 > problem with speed.
15 >
16 > The problem is the insanely slow disk access that I am getting.
17 >
18 > here is some output:
19 >
20 > manticore ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
21 >
22 > /dev/hda:
23 > Timing cached reads: 5702 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2857.11 MB/sec
24 > Timing buffered disk reads: 6 MB in 3.37 seconds = 1.78 MB/sec
25 >
26 > manticore ~ # /etc/init.d/hdparm start
27 > * Running hdparm on /dev/hda ...
28 > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
29 > [ ok ]
30 > * Running hdparm on /dev/hdd ...
31 > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
32 > [ ok ]
33 >
34 >
35 > I read on a forum somewhere that this could be caused by the HAL daemon
36 > so I shut that down and no luck :-(
37 >
38 > Any ideas?
39 >
40 > Thanks
41 > Wayn0
42 --
43 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
44 Home in Perth!
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