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Date:      Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:37:11 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: poor fdc(4) performance
Message-ID:  <20051112073711.GE39882@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20051112071815.GD18405@rndsoft.co.kr>
References:  <20051112071815.GD18405@rndsoft.co.kr>

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On Sat, 2005-Nov-12 16:18:15 +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>I encountered a P3 SMP system that shows poor fdc(4) performance.
>But when I use larger block size, say 36b, it seems it works
>as expected.

36b is one track.  My suspicion is that the system isn't fast enough
to read sequential blocks, one at a time, so you're forced to wait
a complete revolution (plus a bit) for each block you read.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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