Comment 5 for bug 216878

I'm seeing slow disk transfers with Hardy (8.4.1) on a server. Windows 2003 server on older/slower hardware is performing better. I need to improve the Ubuntu server performance! :)

Here are some examples of hdparm results on my Ubuntu Hardy server. These are from a RAID-5 array on an LSI MegaRAID 320-2E SCSI controller with 4x Seagate 15k rpm drives.

/dev/mapper/sdX_crypt:
 Timing cached reads: 1378 MB in 2.00 seconds = 688.89 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 166 MB in 3.01 seconds = 55.12 MB/sec

/dev/mapper/sdX_crypt:
 Timing cached reads: 1368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 683.69 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.02 seconds = 56.37 MB/sec

I have all the relevant info (dmesg, lspci, lsmod, hdparm, bonnie++ output, etc.) I will post it here if requested. Thanks.