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I've got one laptop which while having a relatively modern HDD, 2GB ram and a dualcore i3 has awful performance when it comes to anything I/O related.
Opening Nautilus on the home folder takes a fair bit of disk grinding before it shows anything; open the gnome settings for sound takes eons of disk grinding and generally - anything that involves the HDD is unacceptably slow.
I've ran the I/O PTS test suite on it, and according to this legendless graph, if I'm guessing what it's showing correctly, is confirming that in general the performance is way subpar to what it should be: http://openbenchmarking.org/opc/1207015-AR-HITACHIHT64
I wanted to compare this HITACHI HTS54505 to others, however it seems to be impossible to select my original test from this page: http://openbenchmarking.org/s/Hitachi%20HTS54505 so that's not feasible.
The system does have an encrypted home setup using Ubuntu's ecryptfs tech, though according to one of it's authors, it should not be responsible for this big of an impact as I understand it: http://askubuntu.com/a/100833/4918
Would anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong?
I've ran the e4defrag utility on the whole HDD, but it said the disk is just shiny and not fragmented at all:
Any advice or help is appreciated on this matter. Thanks!
Opening Nautilus on the home folder takes a fair bit of disk grinding before it shows anything; open the gnome settings for sound takes eons of disk grinding and generally - anything that involves the HDD is unacceptably slow.
I've ran the I/O PTS test suite on it, and according to this legendless graph, if I'm guessing what it's showing correctly, is confirming that in general the performance is way subpar to what it should be: http://openbenchmarking.org/opc/1207015-AR-HITACHIHT64
I wanted to compare this HITACHI HTS54505 to others, however it seems to be impossible to select my original test from this page: http://openbenchmarking.org/s/Hitachi%20HTS54505 so that's not feasible.
The system does have an encrypted home setup using Ubuntu's ecryptfs tech, though according to one of it's authors, it should not be responsible for this big of an impact as I understand it: http://askubuntu.com/a/100833/4918
Would anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong?
I've ran the e4defrag utility on the whole HDD, but it said the disk is just shiny and not fragmented at all:
Code:
<Fragmented files> now/best size/ext
1. /var/log/wtmp.1 13/1 4 KB
2. /var/log/syslog 12/1 4 KB
3. /var/lib/gdm/.ICEauthority 11/1 4 KB
4. /var/log/cups/access_log 6/1 4 KB
5. /home/.ecryptfs/<user>/.Private/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.<long name>
13/1 4 KB
Total/best extents 271960/264385
Average size per extent 421 KB
Fragmentation score 0
[0-30 no problem: 31-55 a little bit fragmented: 56- needs defrag]
This device (/dev/sda1) does not need defragmentation.
Done.
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