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SubjectRe: 2.6.0-test9 /-mm3 SATA siimage - bad disk performance
Marcus Hartig wrote:
> Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
>
>> I have a similar problem: With 2.4.22-ac3 I had 37mb/sec with my
>> Samsung HD and 49MB/sec with IBM/Hitachi, now with 2.6 (all I tried,
>> including test9-mm2) I had only 20mb/sec for Samsung and about
>> 39mb/sec for the IBM. Motherboard is Abit NF7-S Rev2.0, as well, so
>> same situation with the siimage 1.06 driver. I wanted to run some dd
>> tests as well, but it is a real performance hit. Playing with
>> readahead or other hdparm options didn't help either.
>
>
> I get a tip from Mark Hahn to set the pci latency to 64. And wow, with
> fedora 2.4.22 kernel I get then 41MB/sec with max_k_p_r 128. But,...
> after copying big files I get ext3-fs erros, cannot read inode etc and a
> bus error. Bumm!

Is there a way to change the latency within Linux? I mean I don't want
to ruin my Windows, as it works w/o problems. Nevertheless I rather make
a backup of my Linux install before messing with that...

Prakash

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