Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 May 2007 09:07:30 -0700 | From | "Ray Lee" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.21.1 - 97% wait time on IDE operations |
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On 5/26/07, Tommy Vercetti <vercetti@zlew.org> wrote: > in terms of driver, what do you mean ?
The software driver that handles the specific chipset for that drive. The thing that shows up when you do an lsmod, assuming you have the driver compiled as a module.
> /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 732 MB in 2.00 seconds = 365.74 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 76 MB in 3.00 seconds = 25.31 MB/sec
That looks fine. Your filesystem may just be very fragmented. I'm not familiar with how reiser3 filesystems age, so if you've had the system installed for quite some time, it may be time to back it up and reinstall. Dunno.
All of Paolo's suggestions look good, BTW. Sorry I couldn't be more help. - 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/
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