Re: FC2 + newest openoffice = slower

From: Ow Mun Heng (Ow.Mun.Heng_at_wdc.com)
Date: 09/18/04

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    Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:34:00 +0800 on neuromancer.home.net
    
    

    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@haligonian.com

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