From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 6:47:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from i01sv4107.ids1.intelonline.com (i01sv4107-p.ids1.intelonline.com [147.208.166.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5928237B40B for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i01sv4139 (unverified [10.81.26.12]) by i01sv4107.ids1.intelonline.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with SMTP id for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:47:07 +0000 Message-ID: From: Matthias Bartels To: "questions@freebsd.org" X-Originating-IP: [194.95.17.116] Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:47:07 +0100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-mailer: AspMail 4.0 4.02 (SMT4DD4B4F) Subject: performance problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Servus, i have a serious performance problem with my harddisk. i am using a Maxtor U/DMA 100 with soft updates enabled my problem are for example tgz files that contain many small files, i used the time command to extract the ports collection (13MB as tgz) and time figured out that the total time was: 13 min and user time less than one second. In addition to time command i also used top, and tar had a priority of -6 and status switched between biord and getblk the cpu idle time was near 99%... could anybody help me? Thanks. M.Bartels Ringtones, Logos und crazy Mailbox Ansagen für Dein Nokia-Handy @ www.genie.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message