[ltp] Re: system unresponsive during disk activity

Marcus Better linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:23:54 +0100


Theodore Tso wrote:
> What does "hdparm -tt" show?

~$ sudo hdparm -tt /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  102 MB in  3.03 seconds =  33.69 MB/sec
marcus@melech:~$ sudo hdparm -tt /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  100 MB in  3.01 seconds =  33.26 MB/sec
~$ sudo hdparm -tt /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  102 MB in  3.02 seconds =  33.72 MB/sec
~$   

Marcus