Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:35:39 -0500 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE Message-ID: <430E2B9B.4050005@mkproductions.org> In-Reply-To: <20050825151032.A88957@devel.cotharyus.net> 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> <20050825151032.A88957@devel.cotharyus.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Laurence Sanford wrote: > > > 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. Nope, my board does not allow them to be on the same channel or I get UDMA ICRC READ and WRITE errors (had a thread going about that here as well). All drives are on their own channel. -Mark
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?430E2B9B.4050005>