Lester Caine wrote:

> OK I've checked the other two Linux machines all three with the same
> motherboard, but different disk arrangements, and the first is less than half
> the speed of the other two on cached performance, but seems much the best on
> buffered performance. All three are AMD64 4200X2's with DDR2 memory, although
> the other to only have 2Gb each.
>
> Windows XP is running on exactly the same hardware ( a waste I know ) but is
> three times faster - so where do I go next :(

You could try this:

http://hdparm-win32.dyndns.org/hdparm/

And see if your harddrives are performing significantly faster on the
Windows platform.

Other than that I really don't know what to suggest. I've had zero
performance issues moving from Windows to Slackware 12.

Regards,
Thomas