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sndive@gmail.com

2006-11-16, 1:14 pm

What's a recommended (pref. stable) kernel version with ICH8 support?
Anything in 2.4.x line?
hdparm -t reports 12MB/s under MEPIS and 4.2MB/s under Slackware 11
I can do much better even with usb HDDs :-[

DistroWatch:
Imagine that sucky mepis installed a unpiprocessor kernel on my core
duo 2 system!

patpro ~ Patrick Proniewski

2006-11-17, 7:21 am

Hi

In article <1163704429.222003.308870@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
sndive@gmail.com wrote:

> What's a recommended (pref. stable) kernel version with ICH8 support?
> Anything in 2.4.x line?


I'm currently testing a Debian AMD64 "testing" installation on a
Supermicro ICH8 motherboard.

the server:
<http://supermicro.com/products/syst...YS-6015P-TR.cfm>
dmesg output: <http://patpro.net/~patpro/dmesg.txt>


The box sports 4 Raptor SATA HDs, one with a system install (sdd1), and
the 3 others in software RAID5 (md0, created with MD) :

# hdparm -t /dev/sdd1

/dev/sdd1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 208 MB in 3.01 seconds = 69.08 MB/sec

# hdparm -t /dev/md0

/dev/md0:
Timing buffered disk reads: 414 MB in 3.00 seconds = 138.00 MB/sec


> hdparm -t reports 12MB/s under MEPIS and 4.2MB/s under Slackware 11
> I can do much better even with usb HDDs :-[



patpro

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Lasse Jensen

2006-11-17, 7:21 am

sndive@gmail.com wrote:

> What's a recommended (pref. stable) kernel version with ICH8 support?
> Anything in 2.4.x line?
> hdparm -t reports 12MB/s under MEPIS and 4.2MB/s under Slackware 11
> I can do much better even with usb HDDs :-[
>
> DistroWatch:
> Imagine that sucky mepis installed a unpiprocessor kernel on my core
> duo 2 system!


I get between 30 and 75 MB/s in ICH8. Seems to be quite inconsistent and
system response is quite slow when i have high disc activity. Kernel is
2.6.18 SMP and the CPU is a Core2Duo.


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Lasse Jensen [fafler at g mail dot com]
Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
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