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Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

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h2-1
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Re: Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

#11 Post by h2-1 »

the mmcblk and usb failures confirm that those aren't going to be happening at this point. I do believe I could generate a USB speed value, maybe, but it would be the usb bus speed, not the device speed, or rather, the device usb speed, like, 2, 3, and so on, which is already available in --usb so that's not super pressing.

mmcblk have almost no data, they also often fail for disk vendor, the only reason there for example is that I added the actual string AFGCE to sandisk ID. So that confirms that mmcblk isn't going to be happening for speed. I did look through an mmcblk system dataset to see if anything even remotely resembling speed data existed, and I could not find anything at all.

NVMe is the really hard one, since it has data, but that data has to be synthesized to produce a Gb/s speed rating for the entire set of lanes, and the overhead of the PCIe data transfers.
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Re: Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

#12 Post by stsoh »

ID-1 = ssd
ID-2/3 = hdd
should hdd have spin speed??
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Re: Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

#13 Post by h2-1 »

I don't believe spin speed is available as data. Unless it's some code I don't know about.
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Re: Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

#14 Post by stsoh »

check rotation rate.

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$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.16.9] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     TOSHIBA Q300
Serial Number:    75.......RX
LU WWN Device Id: 5 00080d c0026e3c5
Firmware Version: SAFM11.2
User Capacity:    120,034,123,776 bytes [120 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sat May 19 04:54:09 2018 +08
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

user@mx:~/Desktop
$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.16.9] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Toshiba 3.5" DT01ACA... Desktop HDD
Device Model:     TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
Serial Number:    Y7......AS
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 fd1c2c12c
Firmware Version: MX4OABB0
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sat May 19 04:54:21 2018 +08
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

user@mx:~/Desktop
$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.16.9] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Toshiba 3.5" DT01ACA... Desktop HDD
Device Model:     TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
Serial Number:    37........AS
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 fe5dfdcc2
Firmware Version: MX4OABB0
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sat May 19 04:54:39 2018 +08
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
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Re: Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

#15 Post by h2-1 »

I'm not using smartctl for this feature, I need to get rid of root/sudo requiring subshell commands in pinxi, and remove recommends/dependencies for features as much as possible (particularly when the tool would only be used for a single thing which is an extra data value already), those currently form the greatest bottlenecks in inxi. We are looking at creating Perl xs C modules for inxi, which could in theory be used to grab various bits of data without requiring extra programs, but that's a slow process, and I am not the one doing it since I don't do C. But it is being worked on slowly, I believe a raw replacement is almost running for the data from glxinfo for example.

I do wonder where smartctl gets the info from though.

Sometimes there are codes in values that can be translated to data, but it just depends on what /sys has in it.
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Re: Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

#16 Post by h2-1 »

Just as an aside, one of the reasons I need to start getting rid of these types of helper programs is that sometimes they are very slow, that's because for instance in the case of smartctl, it's primary purpose is to allow you to work with hard drives, and a completely secondary purpose is to issue a report on the drive. But to run the tool requires launching all of it, in this case, I timed it, with SSD root drive, the time to deliver the report is 0.230 seconds, which is really slow. I generally won't use tools that take more than 50 or so milliseconds, unless there is truly no other way to get the data, and the data matters a lot. lsusb is that way, it's really slow, but I currently have no other way to generate usb data, though i may make a way in Perl if I can.

Basically, if the single part of smartctl is sliced out, and turned into one feature of a system data perl xs C module, it will run almost instantly, I believe, though this all remains to be seen.

Just to compare, if you do: fdisk -l /dev/sda it takes on this system 8 milliseconds, which is why I use fdisk in disk scheme as a fallback tool.
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Re: Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

#17 Post by h2-1 »

I'd say this 'speed:' item is in general going to report the speed the thing is actually running at, not its designed speed. I see that on this board, for example, which is SATA 2, so a SATA 3 ssd reports at 3.0 Gb/s, aka, SATA 2.
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Re: Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

#18 Post by stsoh »

i know tat u wanted to omitted sudo and data speed u are referring to, another example for rotational speed:

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user@mx:~/Desktop
$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep Rotation
	Nominal Media Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
user@mx:~/Desktop
$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep Rotation
	Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 7200
user@mx:~/Desktop
$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdc | grep Rotation
	Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 7200
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Re: Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

#19 Post by h2-1 »

hdparm is much faster. It's interesting when you actually run tests on the speed of various programs, some are incredibly well written highly optimized, and very fast, and others are slow, clunky, and probably not very well written internally.

that's in the ballpark for speeds. Neither hdparm or smartctl can be assumed to be present in user systems, but hdparm is at least fast.

Oddly, while testing that, I discovered that the test on ssd takes 0.21 seconds, and the test for spinning disk takes only 0.02 seconds, give or take.

However, the spinning speed isn't actually what the speed: item was about, but it is something I can add to the long term list of possible future features on github.

Running commands in subshells is one of the very worst things re speed you can do, that was part of the reason for rewriting pinxi into perl, among many others, that let me dump a lot of subshells, but the worst ones are when you have to start an entirely new program in a subshell, I believe these create kernel forks, which are extraordinarily expensive re execution time. So the first thing I do now when testing possible new commands to use is to test their raw execution speeds.

pinxi -v8, on this system, for example, takes about 2 seconds in total. If you added to that 3 rotating speed subshells, it would add roughly .3 seconds alone for that single item, that is, about 1/7 of the time it takes inxi to run EVERYTHING. That's why subshells are evil.
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Re: Yet another new inxi feature: disk speeds!

#20 Post by fehlix »

Amazing stuff!

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pinxi -Mdxxxzy80
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
  type: 3 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z77M-D3H v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: F15a date: 12/31/2013 
Drives:
  HDD Total Size: 7.85 TiB used: 1.21 TiB (15.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM005-2DP166 size: 3.64 TiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM005-2DP166 size: 3.64 TiB 
  speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT 
  ID-4: /dev/sde type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash HS-MS SD 
  size: 59.5 MiB serial: <filter> rev: 5.14 scheme: MBR 
  ID-5: /dev/sdg type: USB vendor: SK Hynix model: HFS128G39TND-N210A 
  size: 119.24 GiB serial: <filter> scheme: MBR 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: Optiarc model: DVD RW AD-7260S rev: 1.03 
  dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw 
  Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Gigabyte Z77M-D3H, Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2 (Quad core), 32GB RAM,
GeForce GTX 770, Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, Seagate Barracuda 4TB

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