Poor disk drive performance with FC3 RC3

[Steffen Persvold]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 19:20 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:40:59PM -0500, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> > I noticed it when trying to start applications such as Evolution,
> > FireFox, OpenOffice etc. but then I started testing it with hdparm -t :
> 
> Can you file a bug on that and include the identify data for the drives. My
> guess would be haldaemon is polling the drives and that would muck up the
> performance in some cases. However it shouldnt be polling too often
> 

Alan,

I'd be happy to. I will also include /proc/ide/piix output.

Regards,
Steffen