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Date:      Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:40:57 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        fandino <fandino@ng.fadesa.es>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3b7and poor ata performance
Message-ID:  <20041021154057.GB640@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <417766B0.1020409@ng.fadesa.es>
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:35:12AM +0200, fandino wrote:
> Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >Its strange that you do not see any difference in speed when reading=20
> >from the device directly vs a file ? I see quite a difference in my=20
> >setup on a RELENG_5 box and not so much a difference on a RELENG_4 box. =
=20
> >Perhaps as someone suggested, the GEOM layer ?
> >
> >e.g. create a file with junk larger than your RAM. (the machine below=20
> >has 256M)
>=20
> -- same mobo and same disks --
>=20
> OpenBSD 3.5:
>=20
> dd if=3D/mnt/aa of=3D/dev/null bs=3D1024k count=3D1024
> 1024+0 records in
> 1024+0 records out
> 1073741824 bytes transferred in 18.743 secs (57287584 bytes/sec)
>=20
>=20
> FreeBSD 5.3rc1:
>=20
> # dd if=3D/mnt/aa of=3D/dev/null bs=3D1024k count=3D1024
> 1024+0 records in
> 1024+0 records out
> 1073741824 bytes transferred in 42.215597 secs (25434719 bytes/sec)

BTW, others have asked that you not use dd as your "benchmark",
because it's not benchmarking anything relevant for real-world use of
the disk.

Kris

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