Andre Hedrick wrote:
> You may get a burst because of caching prefetch or predictive readahead,
> but that is artifical; however, in your case the root directory begins 25%
> in the drive.
But still it gives faster transfers than /dev/hda. The question is why.
I do not think that factor 2 can be explained by prefetch or readahead
alone.
> First you have the faster portion of the drive using a lame OS, so do not
> expect Linux to perform if you put it on the slowest portions of the
> device.
:-) But putting it at the beginning at least leaves the linux partitions
together.
Having the root fs in the outermost partition might give slightly faster
transfers, but slightly longer seeks to get there.
> [root@via DiskPerf-1.0.3]# ./DiskPerf /dev/hda
Is that an unreleased version? kernel.org still has 1.0.1.
Holger
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Mar 23 2001 - 21:00:17 EST