[ale] Disk performance

[Alex Carver]

On 8/24/2013 17:39, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> On 8/24/2013 7:48 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> eft everything else as it was with the exception of removing the
>> suspend feature from the kernel (kept hanging for 20-30 seconds
>> running libgcrypt at boot to uncompress a non-existent suspend file).
> What are the system specs, mostly cpu/chipset?
> Those numbers seems extremely low, even the memory speed. (Time cached).
> Is this an older machine?  P3 vintage? original athlon?

It's pretty old, an AMD Athlon XP with 512MB RAM.

Given the recent reboot I'll just let dmesg answer the questions (with 
some snippage):

[    0.000000] Detected 855.855 MHz processor.
[    0.004009] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using 
timer frequency.. 1711.71 BogoMIPS (lpj=3423420)

[    0.004421] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 
bytes/line)
[    0.004429] CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
[    0.004454] CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping 02

[    0.059589] pci 0000:00:07.0: VIA IRQ router [1106:0686]

[    1.070191] agpgart-amdk7 0000:00:00.0: AMD 761 chipset
[    1.086562] agpgart-amdk7 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000

[    1.572779] pata_via 0000:00:07.1: version 0.3.4
[    1.575320] scsi0 : pata_via
[    1.575889] scsi1 : pata_via
[    1.576122] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xc400 
irq 14
[    1.576132] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xc408 
irq 15
[    1.740993] ata1.00: ATA-4: Maxtor 90840D6, WAS8283C, max UDMA/33
[    1.741005] ata1.00: 16406208 sectors, multi 16: LBA
[    1.757233] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[    1.757500] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      Maxtor 90840D6 
  WAS8 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    1.929016] ata2.01: ATA-3: Maxtor 88400D8, NAVX171F, max UDMA/33
[    1.929026] ata2.01: 16408224 sectors, multi 16: LBA
[    1.945027] ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33