From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 04:06:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC1BD16A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:06:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from CPE000103d44c07-CM000f9f7ae88c.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (CPE000103d44c07-CM000f9f7ae88c.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.193.222.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4296843D4C for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:06:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from 192.168.0.1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id 5394929542A; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 192.168.0.188 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mikej); by 192.168.0.1 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3818.192.168.0.188.1098158772.squirrel@192.168.0.188> In-Reply-To: <41747701.9070001@iki.fi> References: <20041015190638.C5A0E5D04@ptavv.es.net> <41715E7F.7060509@ng.fadesa.es> <20041018100045.f8koww0skcco0woo@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <4173D66F.6010200@DeepCore.dk> <17120aa104101808381cc59152@mail.gmail.com> <41747701.9070001@iki.fi> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:06:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike Jakubik" To: Tommi =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=E4tti?= User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-wettoast-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-wettoast-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: mikej@rogers.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3b7and poor ata performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:06:18 -0000 Tommi Lätti said: > Claudiu Dragalina-Paraipan wrote: >> This might be a bit away from the main interest of the thread: >> anyone has done any test in 5.2.1 ? > > well, here's one from a production machine. There were disk writes > during the test, so one can assume it performs even better on idle > machine: > > # atacontrol list > ATA channel 1: > Master: ad2 ATA/ATAPI rev 5 > Slave: no device present > > # dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1024 > 1024+0 records in > 1024+0 records out > 1073741824 bytes transferred in 25.935189 secs (41400964 bytes/sec) > > The hard-drive is an old 40G Maxtor. Propably 7200RPM. For measure, here are some results from my machine: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1410.21-MHz 686-class CPU) acpi0: on motherboard atapci0: port 0xb800-0xb80f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 4.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 atapci1: port 0x7000-0x703f,0x7400-0x7403,0x7800-0x7807,0x8000-0x8003,0x8400-0x8407 mem 0xe1000000-0xe101ffff irq 10 at device 17.0 on pci0 ata2: channel #0 on atapci1 ata3: channel #1 on atapci1 ad0: 78167MB [158816/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad2: 156334MB [317632/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 ad4: 239372MB [486344/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad6: 76345MB [155114/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 FreeBSD fbsd.wettoast.net 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Oct 18 22:57:00 EDT 2004 root@fbsd.wettoast.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DP i386 root@fbsd:~# atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: ad0 ATA/ATAPI revision 7 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: ad2 ATA/ATAPI revision 6 Slave: no device present ATA channel 2: Master: ad4 ATA/ATAPI revision 7 Slave: no device present ATA channel 3: Master: ad6 ATA/ATAPI revision 5 Slave: no device present root@fbsd:~# dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 18.255028 secs (58818963 bytes/sec) root@fbsd:~# dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 29.462440 secs (36444430 bytes/sec) root@fbsd:~# dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 58.360182 secs (18398535 bytes/sec) root@fbsd:~# dd if=/dev/ad6 of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 41.407983 secs (25930793 bytes/sec)