Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 May 1999 17:07:51 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Andre M. Hedrick" <> | Subject | Re: More Andre IDE "golf" testing |
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Sheesh, did you throw a spindle on the drive or grind a head? I never expected anyone to throttle the driver that hard. Did the data integrity remain in tact?
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > For the past 20 hours I've been stressing disk IO mightly on a machine > (Pentium 120 with 64MB ram) with Andre's patches. > > motherboard ide controller: > hda: Samsung EIDE drive > hdc: 4x IDE CDROM > > promise ultra66 controller: > hde: IBM 22GB Ultra66 drive > > I had these tasks running continuously and simultaneously: > > 1. moving a 200MB file back and forth between hde and hda > 2. copying about 400MB of 3-5MB sized files between hde and hda > 3. copying about 300MB of small files between hda and hde > 4. copying 200MB of 3-5MB sized files from hdc (cdrom) to hda > 5. copying 200MB of 3-5MB sizes files from hdc (cdrom to hde > 6. FTP putting a 200MB file onto hda > 7. FTP putting a 200MB file onto hde > 8. find / > > The machine ran great with no IDE problems. I did turn up another bug in > the latest RealTek 8139 driver. After about an hour the machine locked > with ethernet errors. I replaced the ethernet card with a generic ISA > NE2000 card and continued the testing without incident. > > In short, the new IDE "golf" drivers performed great with no errors > during the testing. During the 20 hours, I moved about 520GB of data > around. > > Also, of note, the 2.2.7 kernel has superb interactive feel under heavy > load. It would seem to "pause" when I would start a new task, but would > come responsive again 45-60 seconds later.
Given the earlier bonnie numbers the CPU load must have been unreal.
> Dax Kelson
Andre Hedrick The Linux IDE guy
Candidate for pre-patch-2.2.8-series or pre-patch-2.2.9-series http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ 2.2.7.uniform-ide-6.19.golf.patch.gz
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/2.2.7.uniform-ide-6.19.patch.gz http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ide.2.0.37pre11+pat7.gz http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/hdparm-3.5i.patch.gz
APC UPS Daemon Support Center. http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/ GPLed source on April 7, 1999
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