[ale] why would it take longer to delete a file than to createit?

[Greg Freemyer]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:22 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
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>> On 5/6/2010 9:39 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> > Look through the hdparm variables and see if your drive(s) are in some
>> > stupid/slow mode.
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>> Begging the question: what counts as "stupid/slow"?  I know that having
>> DMA turned off, or set wrong, will kill performance.  What else should
>> be checked?
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> Off the top of my head, you've found the list I recall.  I haven't done perf
> tuning in a while so I'm fuzzy on details. Not sure if SATA drives eat the
> same params as the IDE ones you listed. May not even be hdparm....

sata definitely use hdparm

ATA-7 added sata to the traditional pata, but most of the command
structure is the same.

Greg