From: jon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Jon Tombs) Subject: Re: Abysmal disk performance Date: 15 May 1992 21:44:39 GMT
In article <goldberg.705954451@vincent1.iastate.edu> goldberg@iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg) writes:
>and spends most of its time seeking? This is something annoying I've
>tended to notice with Linux, but if it now does readahead on files it
>may be improved in this respect.
I don't know about others but for me (486/33c IDE disks) disc access is
unchanged from 0.12 to 0.96 at about 50Kb/sec, I can get ~900K/s according
to Norton sysinfo, so somewhere I'm loosing out.
I've got a uuencode file of the diffs to minix that added read ahead, but
thesis writting doesn't give me enought time to play with linux let alone
dig in the kernel, I'm willing to share it with anyone that asks :-).
Has anyone else run the byte benchmark suit? If so can I make a plea for
the results so I can see what hardware is suited best? (available in
/pub/linux/sources/test_suites/benchmark.tar.Z on tsx-11.mit.edu and
ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk).