FC2 + newest openoffice = slower

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Sat Sep 18 15:34:00 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 11:17, Trevor Smith wrote:
> On September 16, 2004 10:02 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > I'm running on an Hitachi/IBM 5400rpm 80GB 8MB Cache and I get
> >
> > /dev/hda:
> >  Timing buffer-cache reads:   1284 MB in  2.00 seconds = 641.46 MB/sec
> >  Timing buffered disk reads:  106 MB in  3.05 seconds =  34.78 MB/sec
> 
> I've got some sort of 40 GB 4200RPM (don't know how much cache) disk in my 
> laptop and I'm getting:
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   420 MB in  2.01 seconds = 209.20 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:   34 MB in  3.10 seconds =  10.97 MB/sec

This must be an old laptop which does not have ATA100 or something like
that. I get that kind of speed my my old but trusty Dell 166MMX w 72MB
ram on RH8
> 
> changes to hdparm make no difference in the above stats.
> 
> -- 
> Trevor Smith // trevor at haligonian.com

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Ow Mun Heng
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