Ubuntu - File Copy Seems Resource Intensive

[ubuntu at rio.vg]

Gregory Piñero wrote:
> On 7/17/06, Paul Puschmann <lnx at uzulabs.net> wrote:
>> Test your hdd settings with hdparm.
>> You could use hdparm -tT /dev/hda to "benchmark" your first hdd.
> 
> Here's what I got:
> chiefinnovator at MAIN1:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> Password:
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing cached reads:   284 MB in  2.01 seconds = 141.43 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:   66 MB in  3.15 seconds =  20.96 MB/sec
> 

That benchmark looks a bit low, unless you're running on an older
laptop... try just running `hdparm /dev/hda` and post the output... I'm
betting that, for some reason, DMA wasn't enabled on the drive...