From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 21:38:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E18216A41F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:38:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA72443D45 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:38:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7PLcknO035756; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:38:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9C0F161EB; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:38:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:38:46 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Mark Kane Message-ID: <20050825213846.GA715@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kane , freebsd-questions@freebsd.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <430E294C.2080207@mkproductions.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:38:54 -0000 --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:25:48PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > >Hmm, if bzip2 can't saturate the CPU, I would say it's probably waiting > >for disk reads/writes. >=20 > The drives I was trying to compress from/to are both brand new 200GB=20 > Maxtor 7200RPM ATA133 drives. Maybe that has something to do with the=20 > bad controller on this series of boards. Have you checked (with 'atacontrol mode ') that both drives are indeed using DMA? > Looks like it is the network card. Would disabling that in the BIOS mess= =20 > anything up in FreeBSD? With it disabled I couldn't test the streaming,= =20 > but could try playing files. I don't really see how, other than having no network. :-) If you have a spare machine, you could even try the 6.0 beta release, and see if that solves the problem. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDDjpmEnfvsMMhpyURAphgAKCv1LXPE3XKrU96XQN/e0t6cwQbFgCgj2az BUUHqKttrKgR8dsNI6EDYVE= =3wzr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--