[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: hdparm results

Drew Bernat abernat at zathras.net
Fri Oct 31 10:11:46 EST 2003


On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Wood, Mike wrote:

> Does this look ok?  Seems strange to me that the disk reads would be sooooo
> much slower than the cache reads.  This is a 60gb/7200rpm Seagate drive in a
> RH9 machine, with a PIII 667mhz & 384mb of RAM.  Oh, and the file system is
> EXT3.

I can't speak for the throughput numbers, but I would expect the cache 
reads (coming from RAM) to be significantly faster than actual reads off 
disk.

Drew

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