Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:12:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net> To: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE Message-ID: <20050825151032.A88957@devel.cotharyus.net> In-Reply-To: <430E294C.2080207@mkproductions.org> References: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> <20050825160909.GB10134@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430DF015.5000203@mkproductions.org> <20050825173758.GA10790@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E0461.3030101@mkproductions.org> <20050825181931.GE10790@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E105D.3080509@mkproductions.org> <20050825200838.GA18166@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E294C.2080207@mkproductions.org>
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mark Kane wrote: >> Hmm, if bzip2 can't saturate the CPU, I would say it's probably waiting >> for disk reads/writes. > > The drives I was trying to compress from/to are both brand new 200GB Maxtor > 7200RPM ATA133 drives. Maybe that has something to do with the bad controller > on this series of boards. Are both of these drives on the same channel? If so, remember that ATA cannot read/write to two drives on the same channel at the same time.
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