Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:51:30 -0200 | From | "Sergio Luis" <> | Subject | Re: Slowness with new pc |
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Stian Jordet <liste@jordet.net> wrote: > Hi! > > This fall I built myself a new computer. It's a dual cpu quad core xeon > (E5405) on a Supermicro X7DWA-N motherboard. It has 8GB 800mhz ram, and > a Supermicro AOC-USAS-S8iR RAID SAS controller, with a pair of Fujitsu > MBA3073RC disks in raid 0. Should be pretty fast, but it isn't. In daily > use it feels just about the same as my old Dual P3 1ghz with a single > SCSI disk. Has to wait a couple of seconds before the gnome menu appears > after I've clicked on it, for instance. But with operations involving > heavy disk use, it's extremely slow! For instance, unpacking the bzipped > 2.6.27.6 kernel takes 6:40 minutes, while compiling it takes a mere > 5:13. I thought I had a hardware problem (still not ruling that out), so > I tried to install Vista, and then everything was blazingly fast. I have > no clue where to look, but a static benchmark like hdparm gives me a > throughput of 235MB/s on the raid 0 array. Could it be > filesystem-related? I'm using XFS (always have)... > > Please cc me on any replies. > > Regards, > Stian >
Hello, please post your config and dmesg output. It might help people try to identify something wrong.
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