From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 4:45:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from search.sparks.net (search.sparks.net [208.5.188.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D80514CA5 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 04:45:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmiller@search.sparks.net) Received: by search.sparks.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 79B8A1F9; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 07:45:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by search.sparks.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FAD91F5; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 07:45:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 07:45:16 -0500 (EST) From: David Miller To: Rob Snow Cc: John-Mark Gurney , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: writing much slower than reading... In-Reply-To: <38240CC0.8099D19D@lgc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Rob Snow wrote: > { Moved to FreeBSD-Questions } Rob got: > 134217728 bytes transferred in 7.938773 secs (16906609 bytes/sec) > 0.007u 0.520s 0:07.98 6.5% 73+371k 2+0io 0pf+0w ... on a scsi vinum stripe. John got: > > 134217728 bytes transferred in 6.281820 secs (21366057 bytes/sec) > > 6.28 real 0.00 user 1.68 sys ... on an IDE drive. John is commenting on the 1.68 sec cpu time required to write 128 MB. Isn't this just a normal result of IDE vs scsi? If IDE is going to be as fast and cpu un-intensive as scsi I wasted a lot of money on my last bunch of servers:) --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message