[Samba] Slow response from new Athlon 1.4Ghz machine?

[Darryl Harvey]

At 09:59 PM 14/06/2002, you wrote:
>At 09:46 PM 6/14/02 +1000, Darryl Harvey wrote:
>>  I suspect the SCSI drive, but cannot explain why..
>
>hdparm is a useful tool for measuring the speed of a drive.


Hmm, more tests show that the FAST machine, has slower hard disks than the 
SLOW machine:

IE: SLOW machine;

[darryl at cascade darryl]$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda6

/dev/sda6:
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 12.33 seconds =  5.19 MB/sec
[darryl at cascade darryl]$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda6

/dev/sda6:
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 12.10 seconds =  5.29 MB/sec
^[[A[darryl at cascade darryl]$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda5

/dev/sda5:
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 10.49 seconds =  6.10 MB/sec
[darryl at cascade darryl]$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/hda1

/dev/hda1:
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.28 seconds = 19.51 MB/sec
[darryl at cascade darryl]$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/hda2

/dev/hda2:
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.59 seconds = 24.71 MB/sec



But FAST machine (Which is a slower CPU and older box and OS)

[darryl at keg darryl]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6             1.2G  735M  387M  66% /
/dev/hda1              40M  3.0M   35M   8% /boot
/dev/hdc1             6.2G  351M  5.6G   6% /home
/dev/hdd1              12G  3.3G  8.0G  29% /opt
/dev/hdc5             5.7G  2.2G  3.2G  40% /usr/local/backup


[darryl at keg darryl]$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/hda6

/dev/hda6:
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 24.51 seconds =  2.61 MB/sec
[darryl at keg darryl]$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/hdc1

/dev/hdc1:
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 21.58 seconds =  2.97 MB/sec

[darryl at keg darryl]$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/hdd1

/dev/hdd1:
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 21.45 seconds =  2.98 MB/sec