Bragging Rights

I put a new computer together, so I could have better performance than my previous rig. I wanted a powerful but quiet workstation. I just didn't feel like installing Windows--I've never felt so dissuaded from installing Windows. It just seemed like an unnecessary hassle. I just wanted to have just Fedora Linux on the machine.

In sort of an aimless manner, I ended up having a software RAID partition with an 899GB capacity. I don't know if I'll keep this configuration, but it's very fast and I can't imagine running out of space. I just hope it's not drawing too much power. I was pretty floored by the following responses from Linux:

/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1596.000
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4811.97

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1596.000
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4805.23

Now, my Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor gave me 6,400 bogomips for each CPU, but we all know that only approximately 6,400 operations per second can occur. In other words, the second CPU is virtual and only gets work done when the 31-stage Pentium 4 pipeline would otherwise be empty. These two 4,800 bogomips readings can occur simultaneously, allowing approximately 9,600 bogomips for the whole system.

/proc/meminfo:
MemTotal: 2074924 kB
MemFree: 1084092 kB
Buffers: 32624 kB
Cached: 673980 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 481828 kB
Inactive: 454244 kB
HighTotal: 1179264 kB
HighFree: 264560 kB
LowTotal: 895660 kB
LowFree: 819532 kB
SwapTotal: 4095992 kB
SwapFree: 4095992 kB
Dirty: 42252 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 229628 kB
Mapped: 55352 kB
Slab: 35120 kB
PageTables: 4552 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 5133452 kB
Committed_AS: 602780 kB
VmallocTotal: 114680 kB
VmallocUsed: 7012 kB
VmallocChunk: 107160 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 899G 3.2G 849G 1% /
/dev/md0 99M 10M 84M 11% /boot
tmpfs 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
192.168.0.5:/home 360G 249G 94G 73% /home
/dev/hde 3.3G 3.3G 0 100% /media/FC_6 i386 DVD

There are two 500GB SATA 3.0GB/s Seagates!

[root@localhost ryan]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/md2

/dev/md2:
Timing buffered disk reads: 426 MB in 3.01 seconds = 141.61 MB/sec
[root@localhost ryan]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/md2 ; /sbin/hdparm -t
/dev/md2; /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/md2

/dev/md2:
Timing buffered disk reads: 434 MB in 3.01 seconds = 144.34 MB/sec

/dev/md2:
Timing buffered disk reads: 434 MB in 3.00 seconds = 144.60 MB/sec

/dev/md2:
Timing buffered disk reads: 434 MB in 3.01 seconds = 144.26 MB/sec
[root@localhost ryan]# /sbin/hdparm -T /dev/md2 ; /sbin/hdparm -T
/dev/md2; /sbin/hdparm -T /dev/md2

/dev/md2:
Timing cached reads: 5120 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2565.42 MB/sec

/dev/md2:
Timing cached reads: 5152 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2580.52 MB/sec

/dev/md2:
Timing cached reads: 5060 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2533.59 MB/sec