Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 1999 03:17:00 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Very slow IDE performance |
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Brian Perkins wrote:
>I'm on the "Linux Support Givaway" list, and have been contacted with >a rather bizarre problem. > >She was trying to install RedHat 6 (with kernel 2.2.6, I suppose) on >an Olivetti Pentium 120, and the Redhat boot disk wasn't working. >After fixing this problem, she discovered that her performance was >extremely poor (it took 20 minutes to change the wallpaper) . > >The amount of RAM the kernel found was normal, the bogomips value at >boot was sane (56 or so), and it doesn't thrash, it just takes forever to >perform any disk activity ( the hdd light is on constantly but it >isn't constantly seeking). > >I had her do hdparm -t , which gave a transfer rate of .38 Megs per >second. Any ideas on what could cause this? Unfortunately, I don't >have any information about the chipset and such, though I do have the >output of hdparm -i:
Sounds like the internal or external CPU cache is disabled, or both are disabled. I have a 486-DX2-66 here, and it scores 33.18 bogos. I would guess a P120 would be higher than 56 bogos...
Just a shot in the dark..
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