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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:08:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
To: "Mike Horwath" <drechsau@Geeks.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Disk I/O Performance
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Mike Horwath said:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:01:11PM -0500, Kristofer Pettijohn wrote:
>> > His 5 disk stripe (well, it used to be five when I managed the
>> > machine) should not have issues, but this recently begun happening
>> > both on his systems and some of mine.
>> >
>> > Very odd stuff...
>>
>> Still is 5..
>>
>> No matter what configuration I use I average 35 MB writing, 13-14 MB
>> reading.. its suckin.
>
> I am working on some ideas, I'll drop you email once I have testing
> done.

There is a discussion on -current going on right now regarding disk
performance issues. Perhaps this is related. Look for the thread "FreeBSD
5.3b7and poor ata performance".