From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Nov 6 3:45:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from web124.yahoomail.com (web124.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35CC114BE7 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 03:45:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thallgren@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19991106115720.25866.rocketmail@web124.yahoomail.com> Received: from [212.75.65.64] by web124.yahoomail.com; Sat, 06 Nov 1999 03:57:20 PST Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 03:57:20 -0800 (PST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tommy=20Hallgren?= Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? To: Mike Meyer , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Mike! I think your values are crazy, something must be wrong with your system or the configuration of it. Here's a test of my system. Abit BP6 motherboard. 2x366 Celerons, 64MB RAM. -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 128 7785 44.7 7582 15.8 3591 8.7 9843 55.9 10784 14.3 116.3 2.5 Some lines from my dmesg output: wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): , DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd1: 13783MB (28229040 sectors), 28005 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S This drive is a 7200rpm drive. Regards, Tommy --- Mike Meyer skrev: > Darryl Okahata writes: > ;-> Are you using softupdates and DMA? While SCSI is great, you really > ;->need multiple drives to take full advantage of SCSI. With your typical > ;->1- or 2-drive system, IDE drives shouldn't be significantly slower than > ;->SCSI. > > My tests show different - see http://www.phone.net/home/mwm/disktest/disktest.html >. If there's > something I can do to improve the performance of the IDE drive, I'd > love to hear it. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > ===== Tommy Hallgren Briljantg. 31, SE-421 49, Göteborg Tel.: 0709 - 312 404 (GSM) Tel.: 031 - 47 65 28 (Home) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message