Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 May 1996 18:13:15 +0000 (GMT) | From | gs@sismosr ... | Subject | IDE disk speed 5% slower in 1.99.7 |
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Hi, To help me decide whether to include /dev/random in my kernel I wanted to measure how it affected disk access speed. To do it I ran hdparm -t on my IDE drive with a freshly booted computer that was otherwise idle. The speed increase obtained by removing /dev/random from the kernel was too low to distinguish from measurement error but when I performed the same experiment running 1.2.13 I got a 5% speed improvement. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks.
Guille
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