David Suhendrik wrote:
@Rajagopal:
This result: # hdparm -tT /dev/hda5
/dev/hda5: Timing cached reads: 9952 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4980.51 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.08 seconds = 2.60 MB/sec
8MB/sec sounds like Programmed IO (PIO) to me.
its probably 100% CPU busy too.