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Date:      Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:45:52 +0100 (CET)
From:      Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Increasing readahead on IDE drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201091145460.6130-100000@mustard.heime.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201071748470.12884-100000@mustard.heime.net>

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Can anyone help me here?

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> hi
>
> I'm currently doing some testing, where I read ~ 100 files simuntanously
> from disk. The disks are two 120G ATA100 drives in RAID-0 with ileave ==
> 8192 (this is 4 megs, right?). I want to do a 4 meg readahead per file, so
> I can avoid disk seeks. I`ve done this in Linux, and wondered if I can do
> the same in FreeBSD. On my linux server with identical hardware, I can do
> ~50MB/s on this configuration, whereas I currently can't get more than
> around 10MB/s on FreeBSD.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> roy
>
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> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA
>
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