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Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2003 8:07 am**

I would just like to congratulate you on one of the fastest loading sites i have been too. Its also set out in a way i understand

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2003 8:46 am**

Why thank you!

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2003 10:18 pm**

No one can belive that this site's running off of a cable connection.

What are the specs of the computer you're serving this site off of again? Everything seems so fast on this site... Must be the lack of images (although phpBB loads pretty damn fast too...).

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2003 10:44 pm**

It's an old crippled piece of junk PC that I paid $200 for brand new a few years ago. I don't even have X installed because the GUI is slower than watching grass grow (plus don't have the disk space). I have two P-100s running Red Hat 8.0 that seem faster than this box, really it's a pig. Look at the disk timings, I can write 1s and 0s faster with a pen and paper. More specifically:

Code: Select all: [voidmain@nitro voidmain]$ uptime 10:44pm up 490 days, 20:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Code: Select all: [voidmain@nitro voidmain]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 5 model : 8 model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping : 12 cpu MHz : 475.284 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr bogomips : 946.99

Code: Select all: [root@nitro root]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 8.88 seconds = 14.41 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 12.49 seconds = 5.12 MB/sec

Code: Select all: [root@nitro root]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 627 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 351 2819376 83 Linux /dev/hda2 352 627 2216970 83 Linux

Code: Select all: [root@nitro root]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 2775064 1959268 674828 75% / /dev/hda2 2182104 388856 1682400 19% /home none 61648 0 61648 0% /dev/shm

Code: Select all: [root@nitro root]# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 123300 117460 5840 0 4528 20724 -/+ buffers/cache: 92208 31092 Swap: 262136 110840 151296

Code: Select all: [root@nitro root]# lspci -v | more 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 530 Host (rev 03) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0 00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 128 I/O ports at <ignored> I/O ports at <ignored> I/O ports at <ignored> I/O ports at <ignored> I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16] 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev b3) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:01.1 Class ff00: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] ACPI Flags: medium devsel 00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 11) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 Memory at efffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff Memory behind bridge: e7e00000-e7efffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fec00000-ffcfffff 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3 I/O ports at d800 [size=128] Memory at efffff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at effc0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 10) Subsystem: Unknown device 0291:8212 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 I/O ports at da00 [size=128] Memory at efffff80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at eff80000 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:0c.1 Communication controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 I/O ports at de00 [size=64] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 6306 3D-AGP (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS530,620 GUI Accelerator+3D Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32 Memory at ff000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M] Memory at e7ef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] I/O ports at bc00 [size=128] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1 Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2003 10:58 pm**

You have more bogomips than me (what IS a bogomip? is it how many calculations I can do per cycle?). And I think I have 192mb, which is just about how much you have... My HD is much faster, though--that's why it works extremly well (especially with KDE3.1!). I'm not saying it can beat a top of the line P4, but it works for me.

Code: Select all: [root@localhost squid]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : Celeron (Mendocino) stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 432.027 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr bogomips : 861.79

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Posted: **Wed Feb 12, 2003 3:12 am**

so this site is on the famous 490 day machine?

Posted: **Wed Feb 12, 2003 3:18 am**

Calum wrote:so this site is on the famous 490 day machine?

No, this is on the adjusted 490 day machine. The real 490 day machine is only back up to 244 days.

Posted: **Wed Feb 12, 2003 3:20 am**

TheQuirk wrote:You have more bogomips than me (what IS a bogomip? is it how many calculations I can do per cycle?). And I think I have 192mb, which is just about how much you have... My HD is much faster, though--that's why it works extremly well (especially with KDE3.1!). I'm not saying it can beat a top of the line P4, but it works for me.

Yes, I would much rather have the disk speed over the few extra bogomips. And I only have 120MB of usable RAM (128MB total - 8MB for shared video).

"Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001)"
BogoMIPS /bo'go-mips/ n. The number of million times a second a
processor can do absolutely nothing. The Linux OS measures BogoMIPS at
startup in order to calibrate some soft timing loops that will be used
later on; details at the BogoMIPS mini-HOWTO
(http://www.clifton.nl/~clifton). The name Linus chose, of course, is an
ironic comment on the uselessness of all _other_ MIPS figures.

"The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02)"
BogoMips

<unit> (From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux
kernel.

A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed
made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an
internal busy-loop.

BogoMips MiniHowto
(http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/BogoMips.html).

(1999-05-06)

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2003 12:52 am**

I learned what a bogomip is a long long time ago.

My system has:

Code: Select all: [root@exeleven root]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.73 seconds = 74.05 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 18.42 seconds = 3.48 MB/sec

Code: Select all: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 851.945 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips : 1695.64

Code: Select all: [root@exeleven root]# cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 260485120 237326336 23158784 0 18976768 98918400 Swap: 510894080 77492224 433401856 MemTotal: 254380 kB MemFree: 22616 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 18532 kB Cached: 68312 kB SwapCached: 28288 kB Active: 134488 kB Inact_dirty: 54132 kB Inact_clean: 6984 kB Inact_target: 39120 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 254380 kB LowFree: 22616 kB SwapTotal: 498920 kB SwapFree: 423244 kB Committed_AS: 340832 kB

Code: Select all: [root@exeleven proc]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 5781864 2389488 3098672 44% / none 127188 0 127188 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda6 1950176 20096 1930080 2% /johnz //tazor/PROGRAMS 13641728 13165312 476416 97% /tazor //tazor/C 2024128 1703488 320640 85% /tazoc /dev/cdrom 674942 674942 0 100% /mnt/cdrom

And thats mine.

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2003 12:53 am**

Code: Select all: [root@exeleven root]# uptime 5:51pm up 14 days, 10:52, 2 users, load average: 1.36, 1.56, 1.41

ph34r my uptime!

http://uptimes.wonko.com/account.php?op ... s&hid=2844

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2003 1:04 am**

Man, what sort of disk drive do you have in that thing?!? It is even slower than the one I have in the Void server. My other machine is a little faster:

Code: Select all: [root@kidslinux root]# /sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.61 seconds =209.84 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.03 seconds = 31.53 MB/sec

Code: Select all: [root@kidslinux root]# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 515668 323200 192468 0 31544 149312 -/+ buffers/cache: 142344 373324 Swap: 401544 42576 358968

Code: Select all: [root@kidslinux root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1399.883 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 2791.83

Code: Select all: [root@kidslinux root]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb2 12933432 9920048 2356328 81% / /dev/hda3 23333 18261 3868 83% /boot /dev/hda1 8153076 5826784 2326292 72% /home /dev/hda5 26678896 20976800 5702096 79% /workspace none 257832 0 257832 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda7 3866116 702520 2967204 20% /backup /iso/rh8d1 659488 659488 0 100% /loop/rh8d1 /iso/rh8d2 650656 650656 0 100% /loop/rh8d2 /iso/rh8d3 661728 661728 0 100% /loop/rh8d3

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:01 am**

the first test was fine, here it is again, the second one is slow however. ???

[root@exeleven root]# /sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.30 seconds = 98.40 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 17.78 seconds = 3.60 MB/sec

Dont know why its so slow, oh well, it works fine.

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:06 am**

What does "hdparm -I /dev/hda" and "hdparm /dev/hda" show? Have you tried difference settings and retest?

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2003 3:42 am**

Code: Select all: [root@exeleven root]# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 0 (off) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 2654/240/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2003 3:57 am**

How about the "hdparm -I /dev/hda"?

Can you enable some of those things that will quadruple your speed or is the drive not capable of it? The "-I" command should tell the tale.

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