From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 15:40:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742BC16A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:40:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2A243D1D for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:40:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CE05F51ECD; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:40:57 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: fandino Message-ID: <20041021154057.GB640@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41715E7F.7060509@ng.fadesa.es> <20041018100045.f8koww0skcco0woo@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <4173D66F.6010200@DeepCore.dk> <4173F2E9.7010407@ng.fadesa.es> <417406E3.9010706@DeepCore.dk> <4174FD04.8040000@ng.fadesa.es> <20041019104525.ikgw8kcw8sw480os@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <41753A8F.4040809@ng.fadesa.es> <6.1.2.0.0.20041019121353.026745f8@64.7.153.2> <417766B0.1020409@ng.fadesa.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <417766B0.1020409@ng.fadesa.es> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3b7and poor ata performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:40:50 -0000 --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBd9iJWry0BWjoQKURAocpAKDzSp5pL8SChDF49MeWUQo8JtTV7QCg5Xcs WzTvDTi3AM4kxaVUZT8yAUk= =oxeb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f--